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White City, Florida

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Port St. Joe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32465. The Survey maps it on the White City quadrangle. It stands 7 feet above sea level.

White City within Gulf County

Then and now

1944 to 1988

The same ground, surveyed 44 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of White City, surveyed 1988
Topographic sheet of White City, surveyed 1944

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 14 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of White City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,706 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 3 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
Natural29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning3
Smoking3
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
3 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 September 2007Natural20 acresFlorida Forest Service23/WHITE CITY FIRE-0936
8 August 1992Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 1999Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
1 August 1992Railroad operations and maintenance6.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
9 July 2000Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
8 July 2001Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
4 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined20 acresFlorida Forest Service23/CC RD 20-0520

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gulf County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of White City: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unnamed Clay ProspectClayOccurrence

Every working recorded in Gulf County

Storms near this place

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names White City in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail. 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindWhite City$2,000Trees were blown down onto power lines on Highway 71 near the Five Acre Farm.
January 2016Thunderstorm WindWhite City$2,000A power line was blown down at Highway 71 and Industrial Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindWhite City$1,000The Gulf county 911 call center reported that a couple of trees were blown down north of White City. Monetary damage was estimated.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindWhite City-A tree was blown down across Doc Whitfield road.
March 2024HailWhite City-no account filed
March 2024HailWhite City-no account filed
March 2024HailWhite City-no account filed
March 2024HailWhite City-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gulf 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
Milltown5.4 miles16
Highland View6.0 miles16
Port Saint Joe6.6 miles16
Niles7.3 miles16
Ward Ridge7.4 miles16
Oak Grove7.6 miles16
Saint Joe Beach7.6 miles15
Dalkeith9.1 miles15

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 White CityAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7994546The 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 294969. 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.