Bell View, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Woodbine census division. It sits by Horsepen Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Kingsland NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bell View within Camden 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.

1918 USGS Kingsland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Kingsland NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS Kingsland NE quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Kingsland NE quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

79 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Bell View (historical) between 1993 and 2020, burning about 711 acres in total. 56 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural	56
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Natural	4.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Natural	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Natural	4.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden 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
Shellbine	2.8 miles	17
Forestview	3.9 miles	17
Cabin Bluff	4.0 miles	17
Dover Bluff	4.8 miles	18
Piney Bluff	5.0 miles	18
Grover View	5.4 miles	17
High Point	5.9 miles	19
River Oaks at Harrietts Bluff	6.1 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334816. 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.