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Wallace, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pace census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32571. The Survey maps it on the Wallace quadrangle. 3,868 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 180 feet above sea level.

Wallace within Santa Rosa County

Then and now

1920 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 61 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wallace, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Wallace, surveyed 1920

Population over time

2 figures

Wallace grew from 1,785 to 3,868 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20101,785
20203,868+2,083 (+117%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

249 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 249 fires within 5 miles of Wallace between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,300 acres in total. 10 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
Railroad operations and maintenance65
Equipment and vehicle use60
Debris and open burning51
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Natural10
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks2

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2019Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceBUFFALO RIDGE ROAD (57)
30 September 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
27 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
15 September 2016Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSERENITY SPRINGS (57)
14 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Santa Rosa 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 Wallace: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
Santa Rosa Co. Road Dept. - Saddle Club Estates MineSandUnknown

Every working recorded in Santa Rosa County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallace in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2014Flash FloodWallace$16,000,000Major to historic flash flooding took place on the evening of April 29th through the early morning of April 30th as 12 to 22 inches of rain fell across the southern half of Santa Rosa county. The highest measured rainfall was 20.39 inches 10 miles south of Milton by a CoCoRAHS observer.||Hundreds of homes and businesses experienced significant flooding with property damage estimated to be just under $10 million. The hardest hit areas included Milton, Gulf Breeze, and Navarre. In addition, widespread infrastructure damage to roads, bridges, and drainage systems was caused by the rapid rising flood waters. Infrastructure damage is estimated to have cost around $6 million.
October 1997Thunderstorm WindWallace$50,000High winds, estimated at around 80 mph , damaged five mobile homes just off of State Road 197 near Pine Meadows Loop Road. The microburst destroyed one of the homes and caused minor damage to the other four. A couple of vehicles were also damaged by flying debris. No injuries were reported. Some trees were also blown down.
December 2018Flash FloodWallace$10,000Several residential yards flooded with water coming into the foundation of at least one home near Pace. A rain gauge near Pace measured a storm total rainfall of 11.92 inches.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindWallace$5,000Winds estimated at 60 mph blew trees down.
March 2022Tornado (EF1)Wallace-A short duration EF1 tornado with winds upwards of 94mph impacted|the Pace area on 3/31/22. This tornado began on Dove Drive|impacting multiple residential structures resulting in notable|loss of roofing material along with many snapped/uprooted softwood|and hardwood trees. The tornado exited the community quickly|tracking just to the northwest of the Circle K on Quintette Road|where multiple trees were snapped and uprooted. The tornado lifted|at or near the Berryhill and Chumuckla Highway intersection where|the damage path ended.
February 2020Flash FloodWallace-Flooding reported on Luther Fowler Road.
February 2020Flash FloodWallace-Flooding reported on Martin Road, north of Willard Norris Road.

Every storm recorded in Santa Rosa 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
Pace5.5 miles17
Point Baker6.8 miles15
Floridatown6.8 miles17
Chumuckla7.5 miles13
Milton8.1 miles15
Galt City8.9 miles15
Harp8.9 miles15
Mulat9.2 miles15

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 WallaceAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6166133The 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 294964. 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.