Gaskins, Florida
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Blountstown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32424. 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
53 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 53 fires within 5 miles of Gaskins between 1993 and 2020, burning about 510 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 1 was 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 | 15 |
| Natural | 10 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | S A BRYANT RD (07) |
| 21 September 2011 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | RIVER RD (7) |
| 29 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 28 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | 07/BAILEY ROAD2007-02-0931 |
| 4 July 2011 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | RATTLESNAKE (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 |
| 12 July 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | SE IOLA RD (07) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scotts Ferry | 0.8 miles | 14 | |
| Marysville | 1.7 miles | 15 | |
| Iolee (historical) | 2.7 miles | 14 | |
| Abe Springs | 4.3 miles | 14 | |
| Sharpstown | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| New Hope | 4.9 miles | 15 | |
| Frink | 6.3 miles | 14 | |
| Fisher Corner | 7.0 miles | 14 |
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 Gaskins | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5526473 | 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 301113. 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.







