Georgetown, Alabama

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1986. It stands in the Stockton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 36550. It stands on Cole Branch. The Survey maps it on the Chrysler quadrangle.

Georgetown within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

4 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Andalusia quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Chrysler quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1986 USGS Atmore quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

58 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Georgetown between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,163 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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	25
Arson/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
26 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20150926-004
26 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	44 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1997	Smoking	24 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2010	Natural	11 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	SWR-20140816-002
26 July 2000	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2000	Natural	150 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
25 June 1995	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Little River	3.1 miles	8
Blacksher	5.9 miles	11
Serange	7.5 miles	11
Montgomery Hill	9.5 miles	12
Tensaw	10.2 miles	12
Redtown	12.2 miles	11
Lottie	13.0 miles	11
Latham	15.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 118907. 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.