Aucilla, Georgia

8 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. It stands on Connell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Monticello NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Aucilla within Thomas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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
1956 USGS Monticello NE quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

55 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Aucilla (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 496 acres in total. 3 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	22
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
26 September 2008	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	(33) HWY 19 FIRE
20 September 2019	Natural	15 acres	Florida Forest Service	BOSTON RD (33) 0560
19 August 1993	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
22 July 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(33) BROCK RD FIRE 2
21 July 2007	Natural	100 acres	Florida Forest Service	(33) SOUTH GILLY RD
18 June 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 May 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 May 2007	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	(33) GILLEY RD FIRE

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
Everett	2.7 miles	8
Glasgow	5.6 miles	8
Roddenberry (historical)	7.1 miles	8
Antioch (historical)	7.6 miles	7
Boston	8.7 miles	7
Metcalf	10.2 miles	8
Eason	10.4 miles	7
Lambville (historical)	11.7 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 343677. 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.