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.
Then and now
1943 to 1988The 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 sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1943 USGS Seminole Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1944 USGS Seminole Hills quadrangle1:31680, 3 printings
- 1944 USGS Seminole Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Panama City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Seminole Hills quadrangle1:24000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
83 since 1992Regional 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 9 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
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 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 5 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 03/#3 S POWERLINE-0593 |
| 5 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 03/#1 E.HWY 79-0591 |
| 17 September 2015 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | POWERLINE RD (03) |
| 15 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 60 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 10 September 1997 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 August 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 August 2000 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay-Walton Services, L. C. - Beaches Mine | Sand | Unknown | ||
| Panama City-Phillips Inlet Placer | Titanium-Heavy Minerals, Zirconium | Occurrence | Staurolite, Kyanite, Zircon, Rutile, Leucoxene, Ilmenite |
Storms near this place
4 since 2014Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2021 | Tornado (EF2) | Sunnyside | $500,000 | A 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 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sunnyside | $2,000 | Roofing material was blown off Panhandle Bolt and Industrial building. A picture was posted to the WJHG-TV facebook page. |
| September 2024 | Flash Flood | Sunnyside | - | Water was reported over the roadway near Azalea Drive. |
| April 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Sunnyside | - | An Ambient Weather Station measured a wind gust of 51 knots or 59 mph. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hollywood Beach | 0.5 miles | 16 | |
| Laguna Beach | 1.5 miles | 16 | |
| Gulf Resort Beach | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Laird | 4.7 miles | 16 | |
| West Bay | 5.5 miles | 18 | |
| Open Sands | 5.7 miles | 17 | |
| Bid-A-Wee | 6.1 miles | 17 | |
| Florida Beach | 6.1 miles | 17 |
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 Sunnyside | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7640838 | The 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.








