Bottsford, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Plains census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31780. The Survey maps it on the Bottsford quadrangle.

Bottsford within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Bottsford quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

119 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Bottsford between 1993 and 2020, burning about 558 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 4 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	72
Natural	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
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
9 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-SUMTER-009
30 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-WEBSTER-001
17 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019SUMTER001
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-WEBSTER-002
8 August 2020	Natural	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021WEBSTER001
29 August 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WEBSTER001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter 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
Lebanon (historical)	3.3 miles	8
Plains	4.4 miles	8
Croxton Crossroads	6.2 miles	7
Magnolia Springs (historical)	6.3 miles	8
Thalean	8.1 miles	8
New Point	8.8 miles	8
Sumter	9.9 miles	7
Maddox	10.4 miles	10

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 Q122570314

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 354817. 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.