Seascape, 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. The Survey maps it on the Choctaw Beach quadrangle.

Seascape 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 Seascape, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet of Seascape, surveyed 1935

Compare 1935 against another survey:

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.

1935 USGS Villa Tasso quadrangle1:48000
1938 USGS Villa Tasso quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1956 USGS Villa Tasso quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Choctaw Beach quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Fort Walton Beach quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1994 USGS Choctaw Beach quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Seascape between 1992 and 2019, burning about 334 acres in total. 8 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	8
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Debris and open burning	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Arson/incendiarism	5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	MONKS LANE
30 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	KELLY PLANTATION FIRE 46-1552
23 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
11 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	CAR FIRE (66)
11 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
4 August 1993	Natural	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
27 August 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
21 August 2010	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	66/FOUR MILE VILLAGE-0495

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Miramar Beach	0.7 miles	15
Tang-O-Mar Beach	1.4 miles	15
Gulf Pines	2.0 miles	15
Sandestin	2.2 miles	17
The Village of Baytowne Wharf	2.6 miles	17
Four Mile Village	2.6 miles	15
Turquoise Beach	3.9 miles	17
Grosh	4.9 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1955354. 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.