Bascom is a town in Jackson County, Florida, United States, located five miles south of the Alabama border. The population was 106 at the 2000 census.The town is named for the famous circuit-riding preacher Henry Bidleman Bascom, who became a Congressional chaplain and served as president of Madison College and of Transylvania University before being ordained a Methodist bishop.Bascom is also the hometown of actress Faye Dunaway.