Altamaha Park, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Everett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31525. It stands on Poley Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cox quadrangle. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Altamaha Park within Glynn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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 Cox quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

220 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Altamaha Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,313 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 118 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
Arson/incendiarism	118
Debris and open burning	52
Natural	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	12 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2006	Natural	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2006	Natural	42 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2006	Natural	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glynn 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
Everett	3.0 miles	16
Zuta	7.4 miles	17
Ford (historical)	7.9 miles	16
Jenks (historical)	8.1 miles	16
Pennick	8.2 miles	17
Belle Vista	8.4 miles	16
Frazers Crossing	9.1 miles	17
Lotts (historical)	10.2 miles	16

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 Q29033991

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 354293. 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.