Boggy, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the St. George census division. It stands on River Styx. The Survey maps it on the Moniac quadrangle.

Boggy within Charlton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1918 USGS Moniac quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1942 USGS Moniac quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Moniac quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Okefenokee Swamp quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Moniac quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

191 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Boggy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,932 acres in total. 78 started naturally. 41 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
Natural	78
Debris and open burning	46
Arson/incendiarism	41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
6 September 2020	Natural	4.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021CHARLTON011
4 September 2006	Natural	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2014	Natural	45 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-CHARLTON-009
24 September 1997	Natural	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	05-02-BRENSON FIRE
15 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CHARLTON-016
8 August 1993	Natural	25 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 1993	Natural	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlton 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
Clarking	1.8 miles	13
Moniac	3.9 miles	11
Saint George	6.0 miles	13
Toledo	9.4 miles	12
Stokesville	10.6 miles	13
Stanley Landing	17.2 miles	11
Traders Hill	18.9 miles	11
Ferry Landing	19.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331202. 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.