Brailsford, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Townsend census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31331. It sits by Sutherland Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Shellman Bluff quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Brailsford within McIntosh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 15 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.

1920 USGS Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Shellman Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Shellman Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

408 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 408 fires within 5 miles of Brailsford (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,198 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 205 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
Arson/incendiarism	205
Debris and open burning	140
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	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 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MCINTOSH-009
30 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MCINTOSH-012
24 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MCINTOSH-007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McIntosh 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
Shellman Bluff	1.6 miles	15
Julienton	1.7 miles	15
Bellville Point	2.3 miles	15
Pine Harbor	2.3 miles	13
Fairhope	3.2 miles	13
Crescent	3.5 miles	15
Cedar Point	3.8 miles	16
Valona	5.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356838. 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.