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Point Washington, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1936 and the latest in 1996. It stands in the Walton Beaches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32459. It stands on Peach Creek. The Survey maps it on the Point Washington quadrangle.

Point Washington within Walton County

Then and now

1936 to 1996

The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Point Washington, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Point Washington, surveyed 1936

Compare 1936 against another survey:

On record in Point Washington

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Point Washington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,823 acres in total. 19 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
Railroad operations and maintenance22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Natural19
Debris and open burning19
Equipment and vehicle use13
Smoking9
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
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
4 September 2020Natural270 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBUNKER COVE (66)
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service66/HWY 283-0939
22 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceW WILD BLUEBERRY WAY (66)
22 September 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service66/PWSF-0620
21 September 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHWY 98 1309 (66)
19 September 2015Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceINTERCOASTAL (66)
14 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 2008Arson/incendiarism40 acresFlorida Forest Service66/#1 BUNKER ROAD-0568

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton County

Storms near this place

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Point Washington in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 2 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 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
June 2016LightningPoint Washington$5,000A lightning strike caused minor damage to the roof of a home at 203 Melrose Ave in Santa Rosa Beach. Damage was estimated.
April 2018Thunderstorm WindPoint Washington$3,000A tree limb blew down onto a transformer and resulted in a power outage to 98 customers.
August 2010LightningPoint Washington$2,000Lightning struck a home on Indiangrass Lane, which resulted in a fire. Firefighters were able to keep the damage to a minimum. One firefighter received minor injuries while battling the blaze. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPoint Washington-Trees were blown down across Eden Gardens State Park.
May 2018Flash FloodPoint Washington-Flooding was reported near the intersection of County Highway 395 and East Point Washington Road.
June 2025HailPoint Washington-no account filed

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
Choctaw0.5 miles17
Choctaw Bay Estates1.2 miles16
Bunker2.1 miles16
Seagrove Beach3.7 miles17
Seaside3.7 miles17
Watercolor3.7 miles17
Grayton Beach3.8 miles17
Fluffy Landing4.3 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.

Wikipedia article on Point WashingtonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q16898606The 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 289134. 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.