Bland, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Portal census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30450. The Survey maps it on the Portal quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Bland within Bulloch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

1921 USGS Rocky Ford quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Millen quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Rocky Ford quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Portal quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Bland (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 850 acres in total. 17 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 burning	159
Arson/incendiarism	18
Natural	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	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
9 September 2008	Debris and open burning	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BULLOCH009
20 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BULLOCH-004
19 September 2001	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-BULLOCH-007
12 September 2018	Natural	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019BULLOCH004
5 August 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bulloch 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
Hopeulikit	2.2 miles	15
Portal	2.7 miles	15
Colfax (historical)	3.0 miles	17
Kites Spur (historical)	3.9 miles	15
Akins Mill	4.0 miles	15
Piddleville	4.5 miles	15
Westchester	5.8 miles	17
Quail Run	6.0 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 350288. 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.