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New Home, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the DeFuniak Springs census division. It stands on Brier Creek. The Survey maps it on the Portland quadrangle.

New Home within Walton County

Then and now

1935 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of New Home, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of New Home, surveyed 1935

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of New Home between 1993 and 2019, burning about 5,575 acres in total. None 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
Arson/incendiarism10
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 June 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
23 May 2013Arson/incendiarism15 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHAROLD COSSON RD (66)
23 April 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceFOREMAN RD (66)
20 April 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1,800 acresEglin Air Force Base140
18 April 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCORNFLOWER SET #2 (66)
18 April 2013Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCORNFLOWER SET #1 (66)
5 March 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service66/FOREMAN RD #2 0219
5 March 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service66/FOREMAN RD-0218

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton County

Storms near this place

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names New Home in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindNew Home-An Eglin wind sensor gusted to 71 mph.
July 2011HailNew Home-The public called in a report to law enforcement of hail estimated at quarter size in the vicinity of Rock Hill Road and Eglin Territory Site C-6 Road.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindNew Home-The public called in a report to law enforcement of winds estimated at 60 mph in the vicinity of Rock Hill Road and Eglin Territory Site C-6 Road.
May 2010Heavy RainNew Home-A mesonet station measured 3.97 inches of rain.

Every storm 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
Steele Church4.7 miles17
Sconiers Mill5.7 miles17
Rock Hill6.0 miles16
Pleasant Ridge6.3 miles17
Cosson Mill6.6 miles17
Portland6.8 miles16
Freeport8.8 miles16
Alpine Heights9.4 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 295484. 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.

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.