Brentwood, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Odum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31555. The Survey maps it on the Odum quadrangle.

Brentwood within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Odum quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

146 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Brentwood between 1993 and 2020, burning about 3,151 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 34 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	65
Arson/incendiarism	34
Natural	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WAYNE-016
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WAYNE016
24 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WAYNE-020
31 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WAYNE-014
29 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-WAYNE-014
25 August 2016	Debris and open burning	7.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WAYNE-014
22 August 2016	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WAYNE-012
16 August 2016	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WAYNE-009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne County

Storms near this place

3 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brentwood in 3 storm reports between 1993 and 2009: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2009	Hail	Brentwood	-	Penny to quarter size hail was reported in northwest Wayne County.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Brentwood	-	The Emergency Manager reported to the Jesup Press Sentinel widespread tree and power line damage across Wayne County due to strong thunderstorm winds.
March 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Brentwood	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wayne 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
Tetlow	2.5 miles	8
Odum	4.9 miles	8
Piney Grove	5.8 miles	8
Burnett	6.9 miles	14
Madray Springs	7.6 miles	14
Redland	9.2 miles	14
K'Ville	9.5 miles	8
Ritch	10.7 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326192. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.