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Miller Bend, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Freeport census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32455. It stands on Little Cypress Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bruce quadrangle.

Miller Bend within Walton County

Then and now

1944 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Miller Bend, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Miller Bend, surveyed 1944

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Miller Bend between 1992 and 2020, burning about 745 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 10 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
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use20
Arson/incendiarism10
Natural9
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Fireworks1

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 August 2007Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service03/PINE LOG FIRE2007-02-0884
7 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 1997Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2004Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServicePINE LOG # 2
20 July 2006Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service66/MONROE-0849
2 July 1996Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 July 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 2000Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Miller Bend: 4 unknowns, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Walton 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
Battle Ground Forks4.1 miles13
Bruce4.3 miles16
Redbay8.8 miles13
Bunker12.0 miles16
Old Bay View12.2 miles16
Knox Hill12.2 miles15
Freeport13.4 miles16
Fluffy Landing13.6 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122555125The 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 295452. 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.