Briggston, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Valdosta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31601. The Survey maps it on the Clyattville quadrangle.

Briggston within Lowndes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Clyattville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Clyattville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

317 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 317 fires within 5 miles of Briggston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,128 acres in total. None started naturally. 39 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	187
Arson/incendiarism	39
Railroad operations and maintenance	29
Smoking	20
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2020	Debris and open burning	6.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021LOWNDES001
5 September 1999	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
28 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-LOWNDES-002
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-LOWNDES-013
18 September 2001	Debris and open burning	5.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-LOWNDES-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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
Old Clyattville	1.1 miles	10
Clyattville	2.1 miles	10
Dees (historical)	2.7 miles	9
Dasher	4.8 miles	7
Macville (historical)	5.0 miles	9
Olympia (historical)	5.1 miles	10
Twin Lakes	5.6 miles	7
Newsome	5.9 miles	6

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326194. 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.