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The Village of Baytowne Wharf, 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. It sits by Topsail Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Choctaw Beach quadrangle.

The Village of Baytowne Wharf 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 The Village of Baytowne Wharf, surveyed 1994
Topographic sheet of The Village of Baytowne Wharf, 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.

Fires near this place

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of The Village of Baytowne Wharf between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,417 acres in total. 13 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Debris and open burning16
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Smoking14
Natural13
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Arson/incendiarism6
Fireworks3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
17 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceROBERT RD (66)
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

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
Sandestin0.6 miles17
Four Mile Village1.0 miles15
Gulf Pines1.2 miles15
Tang-O-Mar Beach1.4 miles15
Turquoise Beach1.6 miles17
Miramar Beach2.0 miles15
Grosh2.3 miles17
Seascape2.6 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 Q122548416The 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 1955353. 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.