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Tang-O-Mar Beach, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1938 and the latest in 1978. 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 Miramar Beach quadrangle.

Tang-O-Mar Beach within Walton County

Then and now

1938 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 40 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Tang-O-Mar Beach, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Tang-O-Mar Beach, surveyed 1938

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 15 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Tang-O-Mar Beach between 1992 and 2020, burning about 978 acres in total. 10 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
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Debris and open burning11
Smoking11
Equipment and vehicle use11
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism6
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Fireworks1

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
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
27 August 1998Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gulf Pines0.5 miles15
Miramar Beach0.7 miles15
Sandestin0.9 miles17
Four Mile Village1.2 miles15
The Village of Baytowne Wharf1.4 miles17
Seascape1.4 miles17
Turquoise Beach3.0 miles17
Grosh3.6 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 Q122562797The 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 301664. 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.