Brisbon, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Richmond Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31324. The Survey maps it on the Richmond Hill quadrangle.

Brisbon within Bryan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 18 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 Limerick quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Limerick quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Limerick quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Limerick quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Richmond Hill quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Richmond Hill quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Richmond Hill quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

245 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 245 fires within 5 miles of Brisbon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,019 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 84 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	84
Debris and open burning	70
Misuse of fire by a minor	27
Railroad operations and maintenance	18
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	11
Natural	6
Smoking	2

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
5 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BRYAN SOUTH-003
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2008	Natural	6.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-BRYAN SOUTH-002
22 August 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2016	Natural	45 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BRYAN SOUTH-002
11 August 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bryan 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
Bryan Neck (historical)	0.6 miles	18
Port Royal	1.1 miles	18
Richmond Hill	1.5 miles	18
Rabbit Hill	2.1 miles	18
Daniel	3.1 miles	18
Myrtle Grove	3.9 miles	17
Buckhead	4.7 miles	17
Keller	5.8 miles	17

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 Q122570899

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 331237. 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.