Birdford, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Glennville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30427. It stands on Blocker Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glennville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Birdford within Tattnall 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.

1920 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

223 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Birdford (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 480 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 33 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	142
Arson/incendiarism	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Smoking	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	3

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
8 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TATTNALL-010
29 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TATTNALL012
27 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TATTNALL009
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tattnall 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
Kicklighter (historical)	3.2 miles	17
Glennville	3.2 miles	17
Lynn	3.6 miles	17
Easterling (historical)	3.8 miles	19
Midway	3.9 miles	19
Moodys Crossing (historical)	4.2 miles	19
Mendes	4.5 miles	17
Purvis (historical)	4.7 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 347386. 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.