Brickston, Georgia

13 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 31323. The Survey maps it on the Eulonia quadrangle.

Brickston within McIntosh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

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
1955 USGS Eulonia quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Eulonia quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Brickston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,640 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 139 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	139
Debris and open burning	54
Natural	16
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Smoking	3
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
7 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-MCINTOSH-020
29 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	8.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MCINTOSH-008
15 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-MCINTOSH-002
10 August 2004	Arson/incendiarism	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 July 1998	Arson/incendiarism	22 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

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
Jones	1.6 miles	14
Warsaw	1.6 miles	13
Huxford	3.8 miles	13
Chimney Villa	4.7 miles	13
South Newport	5.2 miles	14
Townsend	5.3 miles	13
Eulonia	6.4 miles	13
Credit Hill	7.0 miles	13

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 Q122554970

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 331232. 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.