Frink, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the West Calhoun census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32430. It stands on Boggy Branch. The Survey maps it on the Frink quadrangle.
Then and now
1945 to 1990The same ground, surveyed 45 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Compare 1945 against another survey:
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 14 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.
- 1945 USGS Frink quadrangle1:24000
- 1945 USGS Frink quadrangle1:31680, 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Panama City quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1990 USGS Frink quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
68 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Frink between 1992 and 2019, burning about 826 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 26 |
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | RIVER RD (7) |
| 1 August 2010 | Natural | 7.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 07/DEES FIRE-0478 |
| 7 July 2019 | Natural | 57 acres | Florida Forest Service | ROAD #1 (07) |
| 7 July 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | HOLSOMBAKE ( 07 ) |
| 29 July 1998 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 20 July 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 20 July 2000 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 2 July 2019 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | CO RD 19 (07) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frink in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2024: 2 flash flood, 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2024 | Flash Flood | Frink | - | County Road 1 from Highway 20 to Mack Shiver Road was underwater. |
| August 2021 | Flash Flood | Frink | - | County Road 4 was closed due to flash flooding. |
| November 2013 | Funnel Cloud | Frink | - | A storm chaser reported a funnel cloud crossing over Highway 20 in Calhoun 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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fisher Corner | 0.9 miles | 14 | |
| Abe Springs | 3.5 miles | 14 | |
| Rollins Corner | 4.8 miles | 14 | |
| Clarksville | 4.9 miles | 14 | |
| Broad Branch | 5.8 miles | 14 | |
| Sharpstown | 6.0 miles | 15 | |
| Gaskins | 6.3 miles | 14 | |
| Kinard | 6.6 miles | 14 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 294779. 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.
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.







