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Overstreet, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Wewahitchka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32465. It stands on Joe Lamb Branch. The Survey maps it on the Overstreet quadrangle.

Overstreet within Gulf 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 Overstreet, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Overstreet, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Overstreet between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,667 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 14 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
Natural52
Equipment and vehicle use21
Debris and open burning19
Arson/incendiarism14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Other causes1

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
6 September 2015Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWHIPPOORWILL MARSH (23)
6 September 2014Natural1.1 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWETAPPO 155 (23)
5 September 2015Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWHIPPOORWILL (23)
5 September 1997Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1997Natural11 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
19 September 1995Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
11 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gulf County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Overstreet in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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 2005Thunderstorm WindOverstreet$10,000The Gulf County EMA reported roof damage to a residence.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindOverstreet$2,000The Gulf county 911 call center reported power lines down in Overstreet. Monetary damage was estimated.
June 2021FloodOverstreet-Minor flooding was reported with water in the roadway.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindOverstreet-Trees were blown down across the northern half of Gulf county.
September 2020Flash FloodOverstreet-Water was reported over County Road 386 near Jarrott Daniels Road.
August 2019Flash FloodOverstreet-Several yards were reported underwater along County Road 386 due to nearly 10 inches of rain that fell in a few hours.
July 2000HailOverstreet-Dime size hail. Reported by the Gulf County EMA.

Every storm recorded in Gulf 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
Early3.7 miles16
Beacon Hill5.3 miles15
Majette6.2 miles16
Saint Joe Beach6.6 miles15
Gaskins Still10.3 miles15
Honeyville10.3 miles15
White City11.1 miles14
Wetappo11.2 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.

Wikidata item Q122571337The 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 294877. 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.