Avalon, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mansfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30014. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Stewart quadrangle.

Avalon within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

254 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Avalon between 1992 and 2018, burning about 660 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 32 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	128
Arson/incendiarism	32
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Natural	18
Smoking	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Recreation and ceremony	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-JASPER-004
20 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-NEWTON-001
20 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-NEWTON-003
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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
Newton Chase	1.6 miles	17
Jamestown	2.5 miles	17
Lassiter	2.7 miles	17
Hayston	2.9 miles	17
Starrsville	3.2 miles	17
Highpoint Forest	3.2 miles	17
Silver Lake	3.3 miles	17
High Point	3.3 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1673419. 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.