Bolen, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Dixie Union census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31503. The Survey maps it on the Crawley quadrangle.

Bolen within Ware County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Crawley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

232 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 232 fires within 5 miles of Bolen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,295 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 21 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	105
Natural	31
Railroad operations and maintenance	25
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Arson/incendiarism	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
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 1997	Debris and open burning	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2006	Natural	20 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BACON-016
27 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-WARE-007
26 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WARE-013
1 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ware 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
Crawley	0.6 miles	8
Haywood	2.8 miles	8
Dixie Union	3.5 miles	8
Beach	4.0 miles	8
Waltertown	7.0 miles	8
Bickley	7.4 miles	8
Talmo	7.7 miles	8
Jamestown	9.3 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 Bolen	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q43080692	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 326190. 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.