Blackburns Store, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cuthbert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39836. The Survey maps it on the Bluffton quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Blackburns Store within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Blackburns Store (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 959 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 5 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	101
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
24 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	3.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2019	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020RANDOLPH004
13 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020RANDOLPH003
11 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph 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
Coleman	3.9 miles	7
Bass Store	4.5 miles	7
Carnegie	4.8 miles	7
Grubb (historical)	6.0 miles	7
Shivers Mill	7.7 miles	7
Coles	9.4 miles	7
Goffs Mill	10.7 miles	7
Cuthbert	11.2 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 344722. 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.