Birds, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rincon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31326. It stands on Little Ebenezer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rincon quadrangle.

Birds within Effingham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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 Hardeeville quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Hardeeville quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Hardeeville quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Rincon quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

460 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 460 fires within 5 miles of Birds between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,550 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 138 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	216
Arson/incendiarism	138
Misuse of fire by a minor	29
Natural	19
Railroad operations and maintenance	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Smoking	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
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-EFFINGHAM-018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Effingham 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
Stillwell	2.6 miles	16
Rahns	2.7 miles	16
Rincon	3.1 miles	16
Spring Branch	3.9 miles	16
Ebenezer	4.2 miles	15
Springfield	4.2 miles	16
Blandford	4.4 miles	16
Willowpeg	4.5 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331170. 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.