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Resota Beach, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lynn Haven census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32409. It stands on Econfina Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bayhead quadrangle.

Resota Beach within Bay 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 Resota Beach, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Resota Beach, surveyed 1944

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

288 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 288 fires within 5 miles of Resota Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,171 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 11 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 burning66
Railroad operations and maintenance54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined42
Misuse of fire by a minor38
Natural30
Equipment and vehicle use22
Smoking14
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony7
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
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
9 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service03/HALSEY CIRCLE-0941
29 September 2004Debris and open burning35 acresFlorida Forest ServiceF&W FORESTRY CB ESCAPE
22 September 2004Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceSKINNER RD
2 September 2004Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceKENT RD FIRE
16 September 2012Debris and open burning2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceBLUEBIRD LN (03)
11 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceMARY ANN DR (03)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Resota Beach: 3 producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Pitts Sand Co. Lynn Haven PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dmp Investments, Inc. - Cedar Bluff MineSandUnknown
Gulf Asphalt Corporation - Highway 388SandProducer
Pitts Sd. & Gravel - MowatSandProducer

Every working recorded in Bay County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Resota Beach in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 2008Thunderstorm WindResota Beach$5,000A large pine tree was uprooted, which caused a water main break. The break affected 30 homes near Hitchcock and Resota Beach Roads.
March 2022Thunderstorm WindResota Beach-Trees were blown down in the Resota Beach area.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindResota Beach-The public reported via social media that winds were estimated near 70 mph near Cherokee Landing.

Every storm recorded in Bay 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
Bayhead0.7 miles15
Southport2.7 miles19
Bayou George4.0 miles15
Vicksburg4.1 miles19
Majette4.7 miles15
Lynn Haven4.9 miles17
Brannonville5.4 miles15
San Carlos Chacatos (historical)5.7 miles19

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 Q122554508The 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 295572. 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.