BlockBermuda, Georgia
9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Leary census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39862. It stands on Dry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Bermuda quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 9 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Newton quadrangle1:62500
- 1974 USGS Bermuda quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
79 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Bermuda between 1994 and 2019, burning about 531 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 | 55 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2008 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 2.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020CALHOUN003 |
| 13 September 1998 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-CALHOUN-004 |
| 9 July 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-CALHOUN-001 |
| 3 July 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-CALHOUN-001 |
| 15 July 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leary | 1.2 miles | 8 | |
| Holt | 2.3 miles | 9 | |
| Williamsburg | 5.9 miles | 8 | |
| Morgan | 6.6 miles | 7 | |
| Oak Hill | 7.9 miles | 9 | |
| Cordrays Mill | 7.9 miles | 7 | |
| Commissary Hill | 9.6 miles | 8 | |
| Dickey | 10.1 miles | 7 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331138. 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.