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Berkshire Woods, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Savannah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31419. It lies near Steadman Island. The Survey maps it on the Burroughs quadrangle.

Berkshire Woods within Chatham County

On record in Berkshire Woods

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Berkshire Woods between 1992 and 2017, burning about 540 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 21 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 burning34
Arson/incendiarism21
Misuse of fire by a minor17
Recreation and ceremony8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural2
Smoking2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
13 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2012Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-CHATHAM-003
31 August 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHATHAM-002
18 August 2016Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHATHAM-003
27 July 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham 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
Cedar Grove0.1 miles17
Colonial Oaks0.3 miles17
Mount Herman0.7 miles17
Windsor on the Marsh0.7 miles17
Nicholsonville0.9 miles17
Mount Pleasant1.1 miles17
Welwood1.1 miles17
Coffee Bluff Plantation1.2 miles17

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 Q122564484The 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 1694454. 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.