BlockBlack Creek, Georgia
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pembroke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31308. The Survey maps it on the Eden quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 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.
- 1920 USGS Meldrim quadrangle1:62500
- 1942 USGS Meldrim quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Meldrim quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Eden quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
440 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 440 fires within 5 miles of Black Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,973 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 136 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 | 207 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 136 |
| Natural | 29 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020BRYAN NORTH001 |
| 30 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-BRYAN NORTH-003 |
| 25 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1999 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2019 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020BRYAN NORTH002 |
| 16 September 2001 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-BRYAN NORTH-002 |
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.
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 Black Creek | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4920584 | The 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 2561182. 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.