Barker Spring, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sunset Village census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30286. It lies near McGraw Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Sunset Village quadrangle.

Barker Spring within Upson 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.

1935 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:48000
1939 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Sunset Village quadrangle1:24000
1971 USGS Sunset Village quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

397 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 397 fires within 5 miles of Barker Spring between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,194 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 69 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	256
Arson/incendiarism	69
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
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
9 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1996	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2002	Debris and open burning	4.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-UPSON-012
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	75 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020UPSON003
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020UPSON014

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upson County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Barker Spring: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	D C Eller Bee Prospect	Mica	Prospect

Every working recorded in Upson 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
Crest	0.8 miles	12
Glencliff	1.2 miles	12
Ellerbeetown	1.3 miles	12
Pickard	1.3 miles	12
Hickman Forks	1.4 miles	12
Hendricks	1.9 miles	12
Sunset Village	2.4 miles	12
Roland	4.4 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331090. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.