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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.

Gaskins 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 Gaskins, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Gaskins, 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

53 since 1993

Regional 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 burning15
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Other causes2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceS A BRYANT RD (07)
21 September 2011Natural1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRIVER RD (7)
29 August 1998Debris and open burning18 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
28 August 2007Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest Service07/BAILEY ROAD2007-02-0931
4 July 2011Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceRATTLESNAKE (07)
29 July 1998Natural3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 July 2002Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
12 July 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceSE IOLA RD (07)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Scotts Ferry0.8 miles14
Marysville1.7 miles15
Iolee (historical)2.7 miles14
Abe Springs4.3 miles14
Sharpstown4.4 miles15
New Hope4.9 miles15
Frink6.3 miles14
Fisher Corner7.0 miles14

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 GaskinsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5526473The 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.