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Magnolia Beach, 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. It lies near Audubon Island. The Survey maps it on the Panama City quadrangle.

Magnolia Beach within Bay County

Then and now

1943 to 1988

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Magnolia Beach, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Magnolia Beach, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Magnolia Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 251 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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/undetermined21
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Recreation and ceremony16
Equipment and vehicle use12
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism9
Smoking5
Natural5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2014Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceG MILES INTERIOR (03)
8 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
18 September 2000Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
16 September 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFRONT BEACH (3)
12 September 2001Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 1998Misuse of fire by a minor8.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 August 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Service03/BEACHWOOD BLVD-0590

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Magnolia Beach: 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Baxter's Asphalt and Concreate, I - Panama City Beach MineSandUnknown
Gulf Asphalt Corp.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bay County

Storms near this place

15 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Magnolia Beach in 15 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
March 2022Tornado (EF2)Magnolia Beach$500,000A tornado was captured on video moving onshore in the St Andrew's area across W 15th Street. The tornado moved northeastward through numerous residential streets before lifting near Frankford Ave. Numerous structures were damaged along with trees and power lines. The most significant damage occurred from near W 18th Street northeastward to Clay Ave. Some residences had large sections of their roofs removed with most walls remaining standing. In addition, a house on Arthur Ave was moved four feet off its foundation. As a result, this tornado was rated EF2 with maximum estimated winds around 120 mph. A dual-pol tornadic debris signature (TDS) was evident on KEVX radar.
September 2012LightningMagnolia Beach$100,000Lightning caused a large apartment fire on Alabama Avenue near Gulf Coast State College. The first and second story of the structure were engulfed. Monetary damage was estimated.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMagnolia Beach$2,000A tree and power lines were down on Magnolia Beach Road and West Ave.
December 2009Thunderstorm WindMagnolia Beach$2,000A few utility poles were down at the intersection of Drake Street and 9th Street.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindMagnolia Beach-The Gulf Coast State College WeatherSTEM gusted to 80 mph.
September 2024Flash FloodMagnolia Beach-Flooding was reported at the 1300 block of Beck Ave.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindMagnolia Beach-The Gulf Coast State College WeatherSTEM gusted to 55 knots.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindMagnolia Beach-The Gulf Coast State College WeatherSTEM gusted to 64 mph.
August 2022Flash FloodMagnolia Beach-Flooding was reported on Beck Ave between 11th Street and Highway 98.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindMagnolia Beach-The Gulf Coast State College Weatherstem station gusted to 56 knots.
October 2021Flash FloodMagnolia Beach-Flooding on Peters Drive was at least 5 inches deep with water close to entering houses.
September 2021Flash FloodMagnolia Beach-Flooding was reported along Highway 98 between the Hathaway Bridge and East Ave. There was a report of a car floating in the street, and water in a mini storage business. A ham reported 2.25 inches of rain in one hour.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindMagnolia Beach-A 60 mph gust was measured by the WeatherSTEM site at Gulf Coast State College.
January 2024HailMagnolia Beach-no account filed
January 2024HailMagnolia Beach-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bay County

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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Upper Grand Lagoon1.0 miles17
Delwood Beach1.1 miles17
Saint Andrew1.7 miles17
Lower Grand Lagoon1.7 miles17
Biltmore Beach2.1 miles17
Baker2.1 miles17
Bayview2.4 miles17
Pretty Bayou3.0 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295426. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.