Antioch, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Boston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31626. The Survey maps it on the Boston quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Antioch within Thomas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Thomasville quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1977 USGS Boston quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

105 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 105 fires within 5 miles of Antioch (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 507 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 8 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	77
Arson/incendiarism	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	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
30 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	19 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-THOMAS-009
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-THOMAS-008
15 September 1996	Debris and open burning	6.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2014	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-THOMAS-003
17 August 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 July 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-THOMAS-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thomas 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
Eason	2.8 miles	7
Boston	3.2 miles	7
Glasgow	3.8 miles	8
Lambville (historical)	4.4 miles	8
Newark	5.1 miles	8
Everett	5.1 miles	8
Beverly (historical)	6.5 miles	8
Aucilla (historical)	7.6 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 343674. 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.