Ardick, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Darien census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31305. The Survey maps it on the Ridgeville quadrangle.

Ardick within McIntosh 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.

1921 USGS Darien quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Ridgeville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Ridgeville quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Ridgeville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

684 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 684 fires within 5 miles of Ardick between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,473 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 285 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	285
Debris and open burning	276
Equipment and vehicle use	39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Natural	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Smoking	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 1999	Natural	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MCINTOSH-008
29 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MCINTOSH-012
27 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MCINTOSH007
23 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MCINTOSH-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McIntosh 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
Carnigan	2.8 miles	16
Meridian	3.0 miles	16
Ridgeville	4.2 miles	16
Crescent	4.7 miles	15
Ashintilly	4.8 miles	16
Valona	4.9 miles	16
Credit Hill	5.0 miles	13
Eulonia	5.0 miles	13

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 Q122592974

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 326159. 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.