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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.

Westville within Holmes County

Then and now

1949 to 1988

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Westville, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Westville, surveyed 1949

Population over time

2 figures

Westville 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.

YearPeople Change
2010289
2020261-28 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

139 since 1992

Regional 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 burning34
Equipment and vehicle use28
Railroad operations and maintenance24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Natural8
Smoking7
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony2
Fireworks1
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
5 September 2002Debris and open burning18 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burning3.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceHWY 179A - 1364 (30)
27 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
21 September 1995Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 September 1997Smokingunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2002Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
7 July 2017Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLARRY THOMAS LANE (30)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Holmes County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2004Tornado (F0)Westville$100,000A weak tornado briefly touched down and damaged the city hall. Trees and power lines were also down. Reported by the Westville mayor.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindWestville$50,000WMBB 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 2013Thunderstorm WindWestville$5,000A barn was damaged, and a tree was blocking the road.
May 2019Thunderstorm WindWestville$2,000A tree was blown down onto a power line along Highway 179A.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindWestville$2,000Several trees and one power line were blown down between Ponce de Leon and Westville.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindWestville-A tree was blown down on Westville Park off Highway 90.
March 2016Thunderstorm WindWestville-A couple of trees were blown down in Westville.
January 1997HailWestville-no account filed
March 1996Thunderstorm WindWestville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Holmes 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
Bayou Crossing2.7 miles14
Bounds Crossing3.6 miles14
Hathaway Mill3.8 miles13
Cerrogordo4.4 miles14
Gritney4.5 miles13
Hickory Hill5.1 miles14
Ponce de Leon5.8 miles15
Baker Settlement7.0 miles14

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 WestvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2092709The 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.