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Birdsville, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Millen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30442. The Survey maps it on the Birdsville quadrangle.

Birdsville within Jenkins County

On record in Birdsville

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

6 surveys from 7 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

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Birdsville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 662 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 18 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 burning50
Arson/incendiarism18
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 September 1993Debris and open burning5.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burning3.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-JENKINS-010
1 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2002Arson/incendiarism3.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-JENKINS-014
22 August 2001Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-JENKINS-005
7 July 2002Natural19 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-JENKINS-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jenkins 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
Rogers3.6 miles7
Herndon4.5 miles8
Bennetts Landing5.1 miles7
Cushingville (historical)5.7 miles7
Lawton7.0 miles15
Perkins7.1 miles15
Millen8.3 miles15
South Millen (historical)8.6 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on BirdsvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888620The 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 354739. 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.