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Gaskins Still, Florida

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1990. It stands in the Wewahitchka census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32465. It stands on Virginia Cut. The Survey maps it on the Wewahitchka quadrangle.

Gaskins Still within Gulf 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 Still, surveyed 1990
Topographic sheet of Gaskins Still, surveyed 1945

Compare 1945 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Gaskins Still between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,067 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 8 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
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Natural14
Debris and open burning12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Arson/incendiarism8
Equipment and vehicle use5
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1
Other causes1

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 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 September 1997Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named
25 August 2000Natural119 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
20 August 2000Natural55 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
13 August 1998Natural15 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
5 July 2008Natural60 acresFlorida Forest Service23/BETTY RAE DR 2008-02-0510
22 July 1995Natural12 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gulf 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
Honeyville1.4 miles15
Dalkeith2.7 miles15
Wewahitchka5.2 miles15
Lake Grove5.7 miles15
Early7.0 miles16
Iola7.7 miles15
Majette8.0 miles16
Wetappo10.0 miles15

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.

Wikidata item Q122546042The 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 282960. 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.