Berginville, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Buena Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31803. It stands on Peacock Ditch. The Survey maps it on the Buena Vista quadrangle.

Berginville within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1950 USGS Buena Vista quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Buena Vista quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Buena Vista quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Buena Vista quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

234 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 234 fires within 5 miles of Berginville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 732 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 44 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	103
Arson/incendiarism	44
Smoking	19
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Natural	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-CHATTAHOOCHEE-001
30 September 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-MARION-008
3 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021MARION004
3 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021MARION003
3 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021MARION002
24 September 2008	Smoking	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-MARION-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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
Zellobee	1.8 miles	11
Elmview	2.3 miles	11
Pineville	2.6 miles	11
Glen Alta	3.6 miles	13
Buena Vista	4.5 miles	11
Union	4.8 miles	13
Brantley	6.1 miles	11
Hoggs (historical)	6.4 miles	8

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 Q122554877

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 354553. 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.