Akins Mill, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Statesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30461. The Survey maps it on the Hopeulikit quadrangle.

Akins Mill within Bulloch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

1921 USGS Rocky Ford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Millen quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Rocky Ford quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Hopeulikit quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

266 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of Akins Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 809 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 15 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	186
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Natural	16
Arson/incendiarism	15
Recreation and ceremony	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2008	Debris and open burning	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-BULLOCH-003
25 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021BULLOCH007
22 September 2004	Smoking	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BULLOCH-013

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bulloch 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
Colfax (historical)	1.6 miles	17
Hopeulikit	1.9 miles	15
Georgian Walk	2.5 miles	17
Deerfield	2.6 miles	17
Huntington	2.8 miles	17
Westchester	2.8 miles	17
Pate Place	3.0 miles	17
Foxlake	3.1 miles	17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122559867

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331005. 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.