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.
Then and now
1954 to 1981The 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.


Population over time
2 figuresFanning 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.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 764 | |
| 2020 | 1,182 | +418 (+55%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1954 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Fanning Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1968 USGS Suwannee River quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Gainesville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
198 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 48 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 41 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 35 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 23 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 8 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 24 September 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | DOUBLE PILE (15) |
| 30 August 1998 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 3 August 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | EARL(21) |
| 25 August 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 15 - FARMER FIRE - 0209 |
| 8 July 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 20 acres | Florida Forest Service | 15 - DAY OFF FIRE #0391 |
| 24 July 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 20 July 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | 15-BOBO FIRE-0418 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
8 within 5 milesRegional 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgar Plastic Kaolin Company | Kaolin | Past Producer | ||
| Foster Kaolin Company | Kaolin | Past Producer | ||
| Tunited Clay Mines Corp | Kaolin | Past Producer | ||
| Arrington Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Mcphersons C L Farm Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Limestone Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Wilcox Limestone | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilcox | 1.5 miles | 10 | |
| Wilcox Junction | 1.5 miles | 10 | |
| Lottieville | 2.2 miles | 10 | |
| Blitchville | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Trenton | 6.1 miles | 10 | |
| Wannee | 8.8 miles | 11 | |
| Tyler | 9.7 miles | 9 | |
| Curtis | 10.3 miles | 11 |
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 Springs | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q1908048 | The 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.





