Box Springs, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Junction City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31801. It stands on Scroggins Branch. The Survey maps it on the Upatoi quadrangle. 303 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 367 feet above sea level.

Box Springs within Talbot County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1949 USGS Upatoi quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1955 USGS Upatoi quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Box Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,244 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 35 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	86
Arson/incendiarism	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	2

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 1997	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	7.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-TALBOT-002
5 September 2019	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TALBOT004
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	6.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-CHATTAHOOCHEE-001
24 September 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MUSCOGEE001
22 September 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TALBOT011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Geneva

Every fire recorded in Talbot 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
Geneva	6.7 miles	15
Baughville	8.3 miles	16
Olive Branch	10.0 miles	16
Paschal (historical)	11.4 miles	8
Junction City	11.8 miles	8
Talbotton	11.9 miles	16
Brownsand	11.9 miles	8
Baldwinville	13.9 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 Box Springs	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12888162	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 354828. 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.