Blue Spring, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Warwick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31772. It stands on Little Abrams Creek. The Survey maps it on the Doles quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Blue Spring within Worth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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 Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Sylvester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Doles quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

206 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Blue Spring (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 955 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 24 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	144
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Arson/incendiarism	24
Natural	5
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WORTH-005
3 September 2013	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-WORTH-003
26 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-WORTH-004
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	9.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WORTH007
25 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	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 Worth 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
Aultmans (historical)	0.1 miles	9
Doles	2.5 miles	9
Davis Mill	5.2 miles	7
Pindertown (historical)	5.8 miles	7
Camp Sherwood	6.7 miles	9
Oakfield	6.9 miles	7
Cuffietown	6.9 miles	10
Red Rock	7.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 343255. 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.