Lower Grand Lagoon, Florida
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Panama City Beaches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32408. The Survey maps it on the Panama City Beach quadrangle. 4,398 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1943 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
2 figuresLower Grand Lagoon grew from 3,881 to 4,398 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 3,881 | |
| 2020 | 4,398 | +517 (+13%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1943 USGS Panama City Beach quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Panama City Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Panama City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Panama City Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
90 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Lower Grand Lagoon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 313 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 8 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | G MILES INTERIOR (03) |
| 8 September 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | CHURCHWELL (03) |
| 18 September 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 17 September 1995 | Natural | 60 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 16 September 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 13 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | FRONT BEACH (3) |
| 12 September 2001 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lower Grand Lagoon: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baxter's Asphalt and Concreate, I - Panama City Beach Mine | Sand | Unknown |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biltmore Beach | 0.4 miles | 17 | |
| Upper Grand Lagoon | 1.4 miles | 17 | |
| Magnolia Beach | 1.7 miles | 17 | |
| Delwood Beach | 2.0 miles | 17 | |
| Gulf Lagoon Beach | 2.4 miles | 17 | |
| Saint Andrew | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Panama City Beach | 3.7 miles | 17 | |
| West Panama City Beach | 3.7 miles | 17 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Lower Grand Lagoon | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2513076 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1867171. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.







