Walnut Hill, Florida
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 2003. It stands in the Northwest Escambia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32568. The Survey maps it on the Walnut Hill quadrangle. It stands 259 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1942 to 2003The 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.


Compare 1942 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 15 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.
- 1942 USGS Dyas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1944 USGS Dyas quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Walnut Hill quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1981 USGS Bay Minette quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 2003 USGS Dyas quadrangle1:50000
Fires near this place
54 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Walnut Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 669 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 17 HWY 97 FIRE-0918 |
| 16 August 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 17- KANSAS RD FIRE 1363 |
| 11 August 2000 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 10 August 2006 | Natural | 30 acres | Florida Forest Service | SPENCE CUTOFF FIRE-1409 |
| 2 July 2011 | Natural | 32 acres | Florida Forest Service | LAMB ROAD (17) |
| 7 June 2007 | Natural | 8.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 17 - CORLEY ROAD FIRE - 0951 |
| 6 June 2008 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Florida Forest Service | 17 - HWY 164 FIRE-0675 |
| 24 June 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
25 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walnut Hill in 25 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 15 thunderstorm wind, 6 hail, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Hill | $50,000 | High winds caused roof damage to a couple of homes generally along County Road 164 just northeast of Walnut Hill. Several outbuildings suffered damage. One barn was damaged and another under construction was blown down. Trees and power lines were also blown down. Several vehicles also suffered damage from the falling trees. It appeared that microburst winds of 70 to 80 mph caused the damage. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Walnut Hill | $15,000 | Golfball sized hail fell in the Walnut Hill area for the second time in about an hour. Some roofs and vehicles sustained damage. |
| March 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Hill | $15,000 | Several trees and power lines were blown down by high thunderstorm winds just north of Walnut Hill. |
| October 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Hill | $15,000 | High winds, along the leading edge of a squall line, damaged a barn and blew down several trees near Walnut Hill. |
| February 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Hill | $15,000 | no account filed |
| February 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Hill | $10,000 | Wind estimated at 80 mph downed power lines across Highway 97 and flipped an 18 wheeler on its side. Trees were also snapped. |
| May 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Hill | $8,000 | High winds from a thunderstorm blew down several trees just northwest of Walnut Hill. |
| July 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Hill | $8,000 | A thunderstorm produced high winds that blew down power poles and power lines near the community. |
| January 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Hill | $7,000 | Two out buildings sustained some structural damage due to high winds. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Hill | $5,000 | High winds from a thunderstorm blew several trees down in the Walnut Hill area. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Hill | $5,000 | A tree fell onto a mobile home as a thunderstorm moved through the area. |
| August 2000 | Lightning | Walnut Hill | $5,000 | Lightning struck a home causing some damage. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Hill | $5,000 | Trees and power lines were blown down just southeast of Walnut Hill. |
| January 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Hill | $1,500 | no account filed |
| May 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Hill | $500 | Several trees were blown down along Highway 97 near Walnut Hill. |
| April 2025 | Flash Flood | Walnut Hill | - | Media reports multiple impassible roads with at least one road that partially collapsed. |
| June 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Hill | - | High winds downed multiple pine trees. |
| July 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Walnut Hill | - | Tress were downed near Highway 97. |
| January 2017 | Hail | Walnut Hill | - | Hail up to the size of hen eggs was reported near Walnut Hill. |
| May 2003 | Hail | Walnut Hill | - | For the fourth time in a six hour time period, the Walnut Hill community experienced large hail as a result of severe thunderstorms. |
| August 2000 | Flash Flood | Walnut Hill | - | Street flooding resulting from heavy rainfall was reported just west of the community. |
| February 2021 | Hail | Walnut Hill | - | no account filed |
| April 2008 | Flash Flood | Walnut Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Walnut Hill | - | no account filed |
| May 2003 | Hail | Walnut Hill | - | no account filed |
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.
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 Walnut Hill | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q7963609 | 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 292850. 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.
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.







