Hinson, Florida
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Havana census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32333. The Survey maps it on the Havana North quadrangle.
Then and now
1954 to 1988The same ground, surveyed 34 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


On record in Hinson
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
- Northside High Schoollisted 2019 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Havana North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:100000
- 1982 USGS Havana North quadrangle1:24000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
162 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Hinson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,194 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 62 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 44 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | CONCORD RD (20) |
| 30 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | DANNIBELL RD (20) NOV |
| 30 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 27 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | GLADE RD (20)-0590 |
| 21 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 14 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Florida Forest Service | not named |
| 31 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | LANGSTON LANE (20) 2011-04-0453 |
| 9 July 2014 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Florida Forest Service | DEER RUN RD (20) |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Hinson: 3 past producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fullers Earth, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hinson Fla. | Clay | Past Producer | Sedimentary | |
| Jamieson Fla. | Clay | Past Producer | Montmorillonite, Attapulgite | |
| Havana Clay Mine | Fullers Earth | Past Producer | ||
| Havana Mill | Fullers Earth | Plant | ||
| Meigs-Attapulgus-Quincy | Fullers Earth | Producer | 1895 | |
| Milwhite, Inc. - Gadsden County/Us27 | Fullers Earth | Unknown | Clay |
Storms near this place
4 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hinson in 4 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1995 | Tornado (F1) | Hinson | $20,000 | A tornado demolished a small block building and damaged an adjacent store. Pieces of the building's roof was in trees a large pecan tree were uprooted. |
| May 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hinson | $3,000 | A tree fell onto a power line via the Talquin outage map. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hinson | $2,000 | Power lines were blown down. |
| January 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hinson | - | Additional power lines were blown down near 2061 Fairbanks Ferry Road. |
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.
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 Hinson | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q5305883 | 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 284049. 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.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
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.






