Aqua, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Madison census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30650. It stands on Fourmile Branch. The Survey maps it on the Madison quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Aqua within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Madison quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Aqua (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 720 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 4 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	48
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
12 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	5.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	35 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MORGAN001
16 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MORGAN-001
15 August 1993	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 August 1992	Natural	19 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan 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
Bethany	3.7 miles	11
Pennington	4.3 miles	11
Beacon Heights	4.3 miles	11
Godfrey	4.4 miles	11
Brownwood	4.7 miles	16
Madison	5.6 miles	11
Canaan	6.2 miles	11
Dorsey	7.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 345965. 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.