Water Towers and Standpipes of the United States of America. Sponsored by "Understanding Your Home" by building inspector Mark Visser Tower Information Tower signage: Miramar Beach. South Walton Utility, Co., Inc.. Location: off Route 98 Built: Height: Capacity: Missing tower data: Please contact us if you have more information. Please take some pictures of "your" local tower and send them to us, uncropped and in .jpg format. Click here to send us an image Miramar Beach- Florida Walton County. Photo © Mark Visser Area Information Miramar Beach, Walton County, had a population of 6146 in 2010. Although many other localities in Florida have appended "Beach" to their names to distinguish themselves from an adjacent inland or cross-bay municipality such as Miami Beach, St. Pete Beach, Pensacola Beach, Melbourne Beach, Cocoa Beach, and Jacksonville Beach. The city of Miramar, Florida is actually over 600 miles (970 km) away in South Florida. Miramar Beach is due east of the city of Destin, Florida. It is often considered to be part of the greater Destin, Florida area. History: The unique sand of the beaches in the Miramar Beach area are among the whitest and most homogenous of the world. Consisting of small quartz particles, this sand came from a process involving the Appalachian Mountains and the Apalachicola River 20,000 years ago. At the end of the last Ice Age when the world temperatures began warming and the ice caps began melting, large volumes of water were carried by the rivers to the world’s oceans. The Apalachicola River, rising in the Appalachians, carried water to the Gulf of Mexico and continues today. This water carried the quartz particles from the rock that forms the Appalachian Mountains and deposited them in the Gulf of Mexico, just 125 miles to the east of what is now Destin. As the sea level began to rise, these quartz sands eventually formed a new shoreline. The sands today continually replenish and reach as far west as the Pensacola Pass, their final destination. Resources: Wikipedia Destin Chamber Other sites you may be interested in: Thumbnail Collection of USA Water Towers Canadian Water Towers and Standpipes Magnetic Hills in the United States of America The History of the Christian Fish Symbol ..... Home   Back to Florida Index