Akin, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Jesup census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31546. It stands on Pigeonroost Creek. The Survey maps it on the Everett quadrangle.

Akin within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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.

1918 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1920 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Everett quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Everett quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Akin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,645 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 46 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
Natural	48
Arson/incendiarism	46
Debris and open burning	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Smoking	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	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
4 September 1993	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1997	Natural	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2009	Natural	71 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2016	Natural	6.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WAYNE-013
23 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1993	Natural	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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
Mount Pleasant	2.0 miles	16
Lower Sansavilla	4.0 miles	16
Pendarvis	4.3 miles	14
Paradise Park	6.7 miles	14
Gardi	7.5 miles	14
Manningtown	8.7 miles	16
Odessa	9.3 miles	14
Broadhurst	11.4 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331004. 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.