Blanton, Georgia

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Naylor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31641. The Survey maps it on the Howell quadrangle.

Blanton within Lowndes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Howell quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

349 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 349 fires within 5 miles of Blanton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,501 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 83 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	186
Arson/incendiarism	83
Natural	20
Railroad operations and maintenance	17
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Smoking	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021ECHOLS003
8 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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
Stephenton (historical)	2.7 miles	6
Delmar	3.9 miles	6
Bandy	4.1 miles	6
Indianola	4.4 miles	6
Monks Crossing	4.8 miles	8
Naylor	5.8 miles	8
Newsome	6.5 miles	6
Greens Crossing	6.8 miles	8

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 Blanton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q43080674	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 354768. 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.