Acton, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hamilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31808. The Survey maps it on the Bartletts Ferry Dam quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Acton within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

1907 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:125000
1909 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Bartletts Ferry Dam quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Opelika quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Acton (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 636 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 37 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	95
Arson/incendiarism	37
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4

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 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HARRIS-005
7 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	65 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HARRIS-004
6 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2007	Natural	6.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris 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
Piney Grove	2.3 miles	13
Mulberry Grove	2.9 miles	16
Antioch	3.1 miles	13
Mountain Hill	4.9 miles	13
Bayard (historical)	5.6 miles	16
Clines Crossroads	6.5 miles	13
Rehobeth	6.7 miles	16
Cataula	7.5 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 350929. 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.