Bachlott, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Nahunta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31553. The Survey maps it on the Winokur quadrangle.

Bachlott within Brantley 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1966 USGS Winokur quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

279 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 279 fires within 5 miles of Bachlott between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,418 acres in total. 44 started naturally. 29 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	161
Natural	44
Arson/incendiarism	29
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	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
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BRANTLEY-005
29 September 2019	Natural	32 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BRANTLEY022
23 September 2014	Debris and open burning	8.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-BRANTLEY-010
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BRANTLEY017
22 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BRANTLEY016
11 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BRANTLEY-006
10 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BRANTLEY-019
7 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brantley 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
Hickox	2.5 miles	17
Big Oak	5.2 miles	17
Nahunta	6.3 miles	17
Burton Terrace	6.4 miles	17
Prosperity	7.5 miles	17
Hoboken	8.3 miles	8
Happy Landing	8.5 miles	17
Lulaton	8.8 miles	17

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 Q122592365

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 335808. 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.