BlockBay Meadows, Georgia
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ambrose census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31535. The Survey maps it on the Mora quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1972 USGS Mora quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Mora quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
375 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 375 fires within 5 miles of Bay Meadows between 1992 and 2020, burning about 951 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 46 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 | 238 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 46 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 28 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 11 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020COFFEE016 |
| 29 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 4.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020COFFEE012 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q122572313 | 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 326627. 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.