Ainslie, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cochran census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31014. It stands on Shellstone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Westlake quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ainslie within Bleckley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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.

1956 USGS Cochran quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Westlake quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Ainslie (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 711 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 9 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	108
Arson/incendiarism	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Debris and open burning	8.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2002	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-BLECKLEY-013
23 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-BLECKLEY-005
20 August 1999	Debris and open burning	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bleckley 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
McGriff (historical)	3.1 miles	10
Porter	4.5 miles	10
Coley	4.6 miles	10
Royal	4.9 miles	10
Paulk	5.6 miles	10
Five Points	6.7 miles	10
Cochran	7.5 miles	10
Cary	10.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334609. 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.