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Seagrove Beach, 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. The Survey maps it on the Grayton Beach quadrangle.

Seagrove Beach 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 Seagrove Beach, surveyed 1996
Topographic sheet of Seagrove Beach, surveyed 1936

Compare 1936 against another survey:

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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Seagrove Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,710 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 5 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
Natural15
Equipment and vehicle use12
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Debris and open burning9
Smoking8
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor2
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
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
2 August 2019Natural2.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROAD 28 EAST (66)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton County

Storms near this place

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seagrove Beach in 11 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 rip current, 1 tornado, 1 waterspout. 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
September 2002Rip CurrentSeagrove Beach1 killedAn elderly man drowned while attempting to rescue a young boy from a severe rip current caused by Tropical Storm Hanna. Reported by the Walton County EMA.
July 1996Rip CurrentSeagrove Beach1 killedno account filed
July 1996Rip CurrentSeagrove Beach1 killedno account filed
October 1997Tornado (F1)Seagrove Beach$500,000Two waterspouts moved ashore at Seagrove Beach along Walton County Road 30A and Seacrest Drive. Eleven homes heavily damaged and one destroyed.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindSeagrove Beach$25,000Minor roof damage occurred and a boa was flipped along with broken car windows.
November 2014Thunderstorm WindSeagrove Beach$2,000A roof was damaged by strong winds. Monetary damage was estimated.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindSeagrove Beach$1,000A report was received from mping of tree limbs blown down and shingle damage.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindSeagrove Beach-A power pole was blown down near Lakeview Dr.
September 2020Flash FloodSeagrove Beach-The roads were flooded near the Buds Lane and Highway 30A areas.
September 2001WaterspoutSeagrove Beach-Three waterspouts were reported near Seagrove Beach by the Walton County EMA.
March 2022HailSeagrove Beach-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
Seaside0.6 miles17
Watercolor0.9 miles17
Grayton Beach2.0 miles17
Choctaw3.6 miles17
Point Washington3.7 miles17
Blue Mountain Beach3.8 miles17
Choctaw Bay Estates4.1 miles16
Blue Gulf Beach4.3 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.

Wikipedia article on Seagrove BeachAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q29093946The 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 290793. 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.