Armstrong, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Washington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30673. The Survey maps it on the Celeste quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Armstrong within Wilkes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1906 USGS Crawfordville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Celeste quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

109 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Armstrong (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 416 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 5 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	59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WILKES-001
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1994	Debris and open burning	2.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WILKES-011
23 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	5.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WILKES-007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilkes 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
Prather	2.1 miles	12
New Town	2.6 miles	12
Cohentown	2.6 miles	13
Bessie (historical)	2.6 miles	12
Brickhouse	3.5 miles	12
Jackson Heights	4.1 miles	12
Tignall	4.1 miles	13
Sandtown	4.4 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 342734. 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.