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.
Then and now
1920 to 1981The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresWallace 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 1,785 | |
| 2020 | 3,868 | +2,083 (+117%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1920 USGS Milton quadrangle1:62500
- 1941 USGS Milton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1943 USGS Milton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Wallace quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Bay Minette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
249 since 1992Regional 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 maintenance | 65 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 60 |
| Debris and open burning | 51 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 37 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 15 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 September 2019 | Smoking | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | BUFFALO RIDGE ROAD (57) |
| 30 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 15 September 2016 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | SERENITY SPRINGS (57) |
| 14 September 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 31 August 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
1 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Rosa Co. Road Dept. - Saddle Club Estates Mine | Sand | Unknown |
Storms near this place
7 since 1997Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2014 | Flash Flood | Wallace | $16,000,000 | Major 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 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallace | $50,000 | High 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 2018 | Flash Flood | Wallace | $10,000 | Several 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 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Wallace | $5,000 | Winds estimated at 60 mph blew trees down. |
| March 2022 | Tornado (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 2020 | Flash Flood | Wallace | - | Flooding reported on Luther Fowler Road. |
| February 2020 | Flash Flood | Wallace | - | Flooding reported on Martin Road, north of Willard Norris Road. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pace | 5.5 miles | 17 | |
| Point Baker | 6.8 miles | 15 | |
| Floridatown | 6.8 miles | 17 | |
| Chumuckla | 7.5 miles | 13 | |
| Milton | 8.1 miles | 15 | |
| Galt City | 8.9 miles | 15 | |
| Harp | 8.9 miles | 15 | |
| Mulat | 9.2 miles | 15 |
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 Wallace | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6166133 | 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 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.







