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Mulat, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Avalon-Mulat census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32583. The Survey maps it on the Milton South quadrangle. 322 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 10 feet above sea level.

Mulat within Santa Rosa County

Then and now

1920 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 74 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Mulat, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Mulat, surveyed 1920

Compare 1920 against another survey:

Population over time

2 figures

Mulat grew from 259 to 322 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.

YearPeople Change
2010259
2020322+63 (+24%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

378 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 378 fires within 5 miles of Mulat between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,945 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 19 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
Railroad operations and maintenance105
Debris and open burning61
Equipment and vehicle use60
Missing data/not specified/undetermined44
Misuse of fire by a minor40
Arson/incendiarism19
Natural17
Smoking11
Recreation and ceremony10
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Fireworks2
Other causes2

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
7 September 2019Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGARCON POINT(57)
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceAMY FIRE - 1182
30 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use2.8 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
29 September 2010Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Service57- ORO FIRE-0861
27 September 2004Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceGOLF COURSE FIRE-1132
27 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Rosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Mulat: 4 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Santa Rosa Co. Road Dept. - Avalon MineClayUnknown
Santa Rosa PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Edward M. Chadburn, Inc. - Santa Rosa MineSandUnknown
Salter/3-C's - Pea Ridge MineSandUnknownSand
W.P.R., Inc. - Russell Sand MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Santa Rosa County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mulat in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2022: 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 (EF1)Mulat2 hurtAn EF1 tornado began on 3/31/22 along the Escambia Bay Bridge of|I-10 overturning an eastbound semi-truck resulting in two|injuries. The tornado continued northeast moving onshore off of|Escambia Bay resulting in very sporadic minor tree damage around|North 6th Avenue. The tornado turned east northeast and picked up|in intensity as it uprooted and snapped numerous hardwood/softwood|trees and caused minor to moderate roofing damage to residential|homes. The tornado tracked northeast reaching its peak intensity|of 104mph along De La Rue Drive where a small tree stand had most|of its trees snapped with multiple uprooted and snapped trees in|its vicinity. The tornado continued northeast from here crossing|another small residential community located along Highland Lake Rd|into Edinburgh Castle Drive uprooting and snapping multiple trees|and removing some roofing material from residential homes. The|tornado cross Edinburgh Castle Drive where it impacted a|residential home which had a personal weather station located on|the back side of the house. The weather station measured a peak|wind gust of 97mph associated with the tornado. The home suffered|notable roof damage along with many of its windows blown out.|Several snapped and uprooted trees were also on the property. The|tornado continued east northeast crossing Florida 281, directly|impacting Avalon Utilities building removing some siding and|roofing material. The tornado likely continued to track northeast|of here, weakening as it did so across open fields and tree|stands. Due to limited road access, the end point of the tornado|is estimated based on the weakening of the couplet on radar and|the lack of any convergent wind damage on accessible roads to the|northeast.
February 2016Tornado (EF1)Mulat$75,000The tornado from Escambia County Florida moved into Santa Rosa County after moving across Escambia Bay. Some of the debris from the GE plant in Escambia County was found on the western shoreline of Santa Rosa County. EF-1 damage to trees and homes was observed near San Juan Street at Sealark Lane. The tornado continue northeast, producing additional EF-1 damage primarily to trees with some minor damage noted to other homes. The tornado finally lifted near Shetland Circle just west of Avalon Boulevard.
May 2022Flash FloodMulat-Flash Flooding was reported on Pearson Road.

Every storm recorded in Santa Rosa 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
Harp1.0 miles15
Avalon Beach1.9 miles15
Floridatown2.7 miles17
Pace3.9 miles17
Galt City4.3 miles15
Dickerson City5.8 miles18
Bagdad5.9 miles15
East Milton7.0 miles15

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 MulatAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5847780The 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 295471. 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.