Camp Pinchot Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. 8 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1938.

From the record

“The Camp Pinchot Historic District is a U.S. historic district, located approximately 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of Fort Walton Beach, Florida. The district is on Eglin Air Force Base, roughly along the west bank of Garnier's Bayou.”
Wikipedia article Camp Pinchot Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Okaloosa County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Eglin Air Force Base, roughly E bank Garnier's Bayou, approx. 0.5 mi. N of Fort Walton Beach, Fort Walton Beach, 32547
When was it listed? October 1998
Category. district
Census division. Eglin AFB
National Register reference number. 98001255 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1938 to 1994

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 56 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Camp Pinchot Historic District, surveyed 1994

Topographic sheet covering Camp Pinchot Historic District, surveyed 1938

Fires near this property

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Camp Pinchot Historic District between 2001 and 2017, burning about 1,063 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
21 November 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,050 acres	Eglin Air Force Base	HIDDEN
21 November 2006	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Florida Forest Service	430
14 November 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Okaloosa County

Storms near this property

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Walton Beach, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 3 tornado, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Walton Beach	$500,000	High winds caused damage to a metal building at Fort Walton Yacht Club.
October 1995	Tornado (F0)	Fort Walton Beach	$10,000	A tornado briefly touched down as Opal moved ashore causing damage east of the center in the Fort Walton Beach area. Several trees and power lines were blown down.
October 1995	Tornado (F0)	Fort Walton Beach	$4,000	A tornado briefly touched down in Fort Walton Beach blowing down some trees and causing some minor roof damage to two homes.
October 1995	Tornado (F0)	Fort Walton Beach	$3,000	A tornado briefly touched down near the Fort Walton Beach medical center. Some trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Okaloosa County

Maps showing this location

8 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1938 USGS Mary Esther quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1956 USGS Fort Walton Beach quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
1957 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1959 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Pensacola quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Fort Walton Beach quadrangle1:24000 - 4 printings
1978 USGS Fort Walton Beach quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1994 USGS Fort Walton Beach quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

3 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Gulfview Hotel Historic District	4.8 miles	1992
McKinley Climatic Laboratory	5.2 miles	1997
Eglin Field Historic District	6.1 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001255 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Okaloosa County	All 5 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
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.