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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.

Frink within Calhoun County

Then and now

1945 to 1990

The 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.

Topographic sheet of Frink, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Frink, surveyed 1945

Compare 1945 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

68 since 1992

Regional 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
Natural26
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Arson/incendiarism5
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2

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
21 September 2011Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRIVER RD (7)
1 August 2010Natural7.0 acresFlorida Forest Service07/DEES FIRE-0478
7 July 2019Natural57 acresFlorida Forest ServiceROAD #1 (07)
7 July 2011Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceHOLSOMBAKE ( 07 )
29 July 1998Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2002Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2000Natural1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
2 July 2019Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCO RD 19 (07)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Calhoun County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2024Flash FloodFrink-County Road 1 from Highway 20 to Mack Shiver Road was underwater.
August 2021Flash FloodFrink-County Road 4 was closed due to flash flooding.
November 2013Funnel CloudFrink-A storm chaser reported a funnel cloud crossing over Highway 20 in Calhoun county.

Every storm recorded 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 PlaceDistance Sheets
Fisher Corner0.9 miles14
Abe Springs3.5 miles14
Rollins Corner4.8 miles14
Clarksville4.9 miles14
Broad Branch5.8 miles14
Sharpstown6.0 miles15
Gaskins6.3 miles14
Kinard6.6 miles14

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.