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Fanning Springs, Florida

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It lies in ZIP code area 32693. The Survey maps it on the Fanning Springs quadrangle. 1,182 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 30 feet above sea level.

Fanning Springs within Gilchrist County

Then and now

1954 to 1981

The same ground, surveyed 27 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Fanning Springs, surveyed 1981
Topographic sheet of Fanning Springs, surveyed 1954

Population over time

2 figures

Fanning Springs grew from 764 to 1,182 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
2010764
20201,182+418 (+55%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Fanning Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 549 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 22 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 burning48
Railroad operations and maintenance41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use23
Arson/incendiarism22
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Natural7
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony2

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 2001Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceDOUBLE PILE (15)
30 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenance3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
3 August 2011Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceEARL(21)
25 August 2009Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Service15 - FARMER FIRE - 0209
8 July 2007Arson/incendiarism20 acresFlorida Forest Service15 - DAY OFF FIRE #0391
24 July 1999Equipment and vehicle use3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest Service15-BOBO FIRE-0418

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gilchrist County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Fanning Springs: 8 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Kaolin. 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
Edgar Plastic Kaolin CompanyKaolinPast Producer
Foster Kaolin CompanyKaolinPast Producer
Tunited Clay Mines CorpKaolinPast Producer
Arrington PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mcphersons C L Farm QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed Limestone QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Wilcox LimestoneStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Gilchrist 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
Wilcox1.5 miles10
Wilcox Junction1.5 miles10
Lottieville2.2 miles10
Blitchville4.5 miles11
Trenton6.1 miles10
Wannee8.8 miles11
Tyler9.7 miles9
Curtis10.3 miles11

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 Fanning SpringsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1908048The 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 291913. 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.