Bowen Mill, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Register census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30452. It stands on Big Branch. The Survey maps it on the Daisy quadrangle.

Bowen Mill within Bulloch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1919 USGS Claxton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Claxton quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Claxton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Daisy quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

311 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 311 fires within 5 miles of Bowen Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,048 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 50 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	197
Arson/incendiarism	50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Smoking	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	6

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 2016	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-EVANS-005
5 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019BULLOCH006
27 September 1996	Debris and open burning	2.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1996	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Smoking	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bulloch 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
Overbrook	1.0 miles	19
Anderson Mill	2.0 miles	19
Nevils	4.0 miles	16
Enal (historical)	5.1 miles	16
Statesborough	5.9 miles	18
Adabelle	6.2 miles	16
Denmark	6.4 miles	14
Mitchell Forks	6.8 miles	18

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 Q122589305

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 354819. 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.