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Bascom, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hiltonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30467. It stands on McDonald Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sylvania North quadrangle.

Bascom within Screven County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

297 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Bascom between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,232 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 35 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 burning184
Arson/incendiarism35
Equipment and vehicle use26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking7

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
27 September 2019Debris and open burning3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SCREVEN007
25 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SCREVEN005
22 September 1997Debris and open burning2.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SCREVEN002
29 August 2015Debris and open burning2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-SCREVEN-006
29 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Screven County

Storms near this place

6 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bascom in 6 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBascom$1,000Screven County dispatch reported a tree down on Burton's Ferry Highway near Lawton Road.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindBascom-Screven County dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Highway 301 and Highway 24.
March 2019Thunderstorm WindBascom-Screven County 911 dispatch reported a tree down at Beaver Dam Road and Rolling Road.
October 2019Thunderstorm WindBascom-The Screven County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on a power line along Highway 24.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBascom-The Screven County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Hiltonia-Perkins Road.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindBascom-Law enforcement reported a tree down on Highway 24 a few miles from Blue Springs.

Every storm recorded in Screven 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Jacksonboro (historical)2.7 miles17
Lewis2.8 miles17
Hiltonia3.0 miles17
Red Bluff Landing5.4 miles17
Waters5.8 miles17
Sylvania6.4 miles17
Millhaven6.5 miles17
Zeigler6.9 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326169. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.