Bloomfield Gardens, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Macon West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31206. The Survey maps it on the Macon West quadrangle.

Bloomfield Gardens within Bibb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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.

1956 USGS Macon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Macon West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

146 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Bloomfield Gardens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 526 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 54 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
Arson/incendiarism	54
Debris and open burning	52
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	6
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BIBB-001
4 September 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021BIBB002
30 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BIBB-003
21 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bloomfield Gardens: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Warner Robins Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Bibb 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
Jarrell Heights	0.3 miles	14
Bloomfield Park	0.5 miles	14
Bloomfield Heights	0.5 miles	14
Bloomfield Farms	0.6 miles	14
Westfield	0.6 miles	14
Christian Rest	0.8 miles	14
Sherwood Forest	0.9 miles	14
Bloomfield Estates	0.9 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q122563095

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 1672045. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.