Asbury, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Waynesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30830. The Survey maps it on the Idlewood quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Asbury within Burke 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.

1920 USGS Greens Cut quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Greens Cut quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Idlewood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

233 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Asbury (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,763 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 33 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	139
Arson/incendiarism	33
Natural	19
Smoking	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
4 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-BURKE-003
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BURKE009
25 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BURKE-012
22 September 2001	Smoking	3.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-BURKE-013
2 September 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BURKE-018
19 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019BURKE009
15 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-BURKE-009
13 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burke 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
Old Church	1.7 miles	16
Alexander	2.6 miles	16
Idlewood	2.9 miles	16
Thomas Station	3.2 miles	16
Munnerlyn	5.1 miles	15
Wilsons Store	5.4 miles	15
Hatchers Store	5.6 miles	15
Bill Davis (historical)	6.3 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 347931. 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.