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Sunnyside, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Panama City Beaches census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32413. The Survey maps it on the Seminole Hills quadrangle.

Sunnyside within Bay County

Then and now

1943 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sunnyside, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Sunnyside, surveyed 1943

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Sunnyside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,582 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 8 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
Natural24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use11
Debris and open burning9
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service03/#3 S POWERLINE-0593
5 September 2008Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresFlorida Forest Service03/#1 E.HWY 79-0591
17 September 2015Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServicePOWERLINE RD (03)
15 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use60 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
10 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 August 2000Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sunnyside: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals, Zirconium, Sand. 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
Bay-Walton Services, L. C. - Beaches MineSandUnknown
Panama City-Phillips Inlet PlacerTitanium-Heavy Minerals, ZirconiumOccurrenceStaurolite, Kyanite, Zircon, Rutile, Leucoxene, Ilmenite

Every working recorded in Bay County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sunnyside in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2021Tornado (EF2)Sunnyside$500,000A tornado came ashore near Laguna Beach and heavily damaged a convenience store and a home. This was where the heaviest damage occurred. The convenience store roof was completely torn off of the building and lofted into a nearby house. The concrete block exterior walls were also partially collapsed. It appeared that at least some effort had been made to strap the roof to the walls of the structure, making this damage reflective of an EF2 rating with maximum winds of 125 mph. Behind the convenience store, a house was heavily damaged with portions of the roof missing, but most of the damage to this home came from the roof of the store landing on it. A projectile piece of wood was observed lodged in the side of another nearby home. Several surrounding homes also had minor roof damage, glass breakage, and fencing damaged or torn down. Another home had a carport structure completely collapsed and a wooden shed blown over and rolled into a fence.
November 2014Thunderstorm WindSunnyside$2,000Roofing material was blown off Panhandle Bolt and Industrial building. A picture was posted to the WJHG-TV facebook page.
September 2024Flash FloodSunnyside-Water was reported over the roadway near Azalea Drive.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindSunnyside-An Ambient Weather Station measured a wind gust of 51 knots or 59 mph.

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
Hollywood Beach0.5 miles16
Laguna Beach1.5 miles16
Gulf Resort Beach3.5 miles16
Laird4.7 miles16
West Bay5.5 miles18
Open Sands5.7 miles17
Bid-A-Wee6.1 miles17
Florida Beach6.1 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 SunnysideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7640838The 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 291845. 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.