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Wetappo, Florida

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Panama City census division. It stands on Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Allanton quadrangle.

Wetappo within Bay County

Then and now

1945 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 43 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Wetappo, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of Wetappo, surveyed 1945

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Wetappo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,374 acres in total. 51 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
Natural51
Equipment and vehicle use15
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism7
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2015Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWHIPPOORWILL MARSH (23)
5 September 2015Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWHIPPOORWILL (23)
3 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2014Natural720 acresFlorida Forest ServiceLATHROP BAYOU (03)
9 August 1993Natural4.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 1997Natural65 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
31 August 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
30 August 1998Equipment and vehicle use10 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bay County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wetappo in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindWetappo-Trees were blown down on Highway 22 near the Bay and Gulf county line.

Every storm recorded in Bay 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
Allanton2.5 miles18
Farmdale3.6 miles18
Davis Beach6.5 miles15
Cook7.0 miles16
Mexico Beach7.4 miles15
Old Callaway10.0 miles15
San Blas10.3 miles16
Callaway10.4 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 298065. 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.