Westville, Florida
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the West Holmes census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32464. It lies near Pine Island. The Survey maps it on the Caryville quadrangle. 261 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 69 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1949 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 39 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 figuresWestville fell from 289 to 261 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 | 289 | |
| 2020 | 261 | -28 (-10%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1949 USGS Caryville quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Caryville quadrangle1:24000
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1979 USGS Marianna quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Caryville quadrangle1:24000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
139 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Westville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 392 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 7 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 | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 30 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 3.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | HWY 179A - 1364 (30) |
| 27 September 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 21 September 1995 | Smoking | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 13 September 1997 | Smoking | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 9 July 2002 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 8 July 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 7 July 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | LARRY THOMAS LANE (30) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
9 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westville in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Westville | $100,000 | A weak tornado briefly touched down and damaged the city hall. Trees and power lines were also down. Reported by the Westville mayor. |
| September 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westville | $50,000 | WMBB News 13 reported widespread and extensive tree and power line damage in Holmes county and the western part of Washington county. The West Florida Electric Cooperative experienced widespread damage throughout its service area due to numerous downed trees and power lines with crews working non-stop throughout the afternoon to restore power. Radar showed that a line of storms capable of producing winds in excess of 70 mph moved through the area. Monetary damage was estimated. |
| July 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westville | $5,000 | A barn was damaged, and a tree was blocking the road. |
| May 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westville | $2,000 | A tree was blown down onto a power line along Highway 179A. |
| July 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westville | $2,000 | Several trees and one power line were blown down between Ponce de Leon and Westville. |
| March 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westville | - | A tree was blown down on Westville Park off Highway 90. |
| March 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westville | - | A couple of trees were blown down in Westville. |
| January 1997 | Hail | Westville | - | no account filed |
| March 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Westville | - | 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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayou Crossing | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Bounds Crossing | 3.6 miles | 14 | |
| Hathaway Mill | 3.8 miles | 13 | |
| Cerrogordo | 4.4 miles | 14 | |
| Gritney | 4.5 miles | 13 | |
| Hickory Hill | 5.1 miles | 14 | |
| Ponce de Leon | 5.8 miles | 15 | |
| Baker Settlement | 7.0 miles | 14 |
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 Westville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q2092709 | 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 293152. 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.







