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Villa Sabine, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Pensacola census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32561. It lies near Sabine Sand Hills. The Survey maps it on the Gulf Breeze quadrangle.

Villa Sabine within Escambia County

Then and now

1921 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 57 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Villa Sabine, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Villa Sabine, surveyed 1921

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

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Villa Sabine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 344 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None was 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/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Other causes1

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
18 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGulf Island National SeashoreNLO PICNIC
8 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGulf Island National SeashoreNLO HQ PARKING LOT
8 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGulf Island National SeashoreGROUP CAMP ROAD
8 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGulf Island National SeashoreVILLA TRAIL
2 August 2001Railroad operations and maintenance1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 July 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGulf Island National SeashoreBAYSHORE
11 July 2015Recreation and ceremony16 acresGulf Island National SeashoreNLO FIRE
4 June 2019Smokingunder an acreGulf Island National SeashoreHWY 98

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Escambia County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Villa Sabine: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed Sand and Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Escambia 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
Pensacola Beach1.2 miles16
Sanders Beach6.3 miles17
East Pensacola Heights6.8 miles17
Pensacola6.9 miles17
Warrington7.1 miles18
Fort Pickens7.4 miles20
Navy Point7.8 miles18
Brownsville8.1 miles18

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 Q122559719The 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 292774. 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.