Brentwood, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the West Dougherty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31721. The Survey maps it on the Albany West quadrangle.

Brentwood within Dougherty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Albany West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Albany West quadrangle1:24000

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 Brentwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 548 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 45 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	110
Arson/incendiarism	45
Misuse of fire by a minor	33
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
Smoking	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
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-LEE-004
27 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dougherty 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
Woodbridge	0.4 miles	13
Westhampton	0.7 miles	13
Saint Andrews	0.7 miles	13
Plantation Hills	0.9 miles	13
Fairfield	1.0 miles	13
Pointe North	1.1 miles	13
Doublegate	1.5 miles	10
Dawson Heights	1.8 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671048. 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.