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Sandestin, Florida

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Walton Beaches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32550. It sits by Topsail Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Choctaw Beach quadrangle.

Sandestin within Walton County

Then and now

1935 to 1994

The same ground, surveyed 59 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sandestin, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of Sandestin, surveyed 1935

Compare 1935 against another survey:

On record in Sandestin

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Sandestin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,412 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Debris and open burning16
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Smoking13
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use12
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism6
Fireworks2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2003Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceMONKS LANE
23 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 2000Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceROBERT RD (66)
12 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Service66/BAMBI PLACE2005-02-0562
11 September 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceCAR FIRE (66)
11 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 August 1993Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton County

Storms near this place

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandestin in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 3 rip current, 2 tornado, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 3 deaths. 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 2004Rip CurrentSandestin1 killedRip currents claimed the life of an elderly tourist at the Sandestin Golf and Beach resort. Three swimmers were rescued. Reported by the Tallahassee Democrat.
July 1996Rip CurrentSandestin1 killedno account filed
July 1996Rip CurrentSandestin1 killedno account filed
September 2002Tornado (F1)Sandestin$550,000A tornado touched down and damaged numerous homes near U.S. Highway 98. Numerous trees and power lines were snapped. Reported by the Walton County EMA.
January 2019Thunderstorm WindSandestin$2,000A power line was blown down on private property in the Sandestin area.
March 2000HailSandestin-Dime size hail. Reported by the Walton County EMA.
September 1996Tornado (F0)Sandestin-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
The Village of Baytowne Wharf0.6 miles17
Gulf Pines0.6 miles15
Four Mile Village0.7 miles15
Tang-O-Mar Beach0.9 miles15
Miramar Beach1.6 miles15
Turquoise Beach2.2 miles17
Seascape2.2 miles17
Grosh2.7 miles17

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 Q122538930The 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 1955351. 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.