Bristol Hammock, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the St. Marys census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31548. It lies near Wrights Island. The Survey maps it on the Kingsland quadrangle.

Bristol Hammock within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1918 USGS Kingsland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Kingsland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Kingsland quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Kingsland quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

384 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 384 fires within 5 miles of Bristol Hammock between 1992 and 2020, burning about 674 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 105 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	113
Arson/incendiarism	105
Misuse of fire by a minor	56
Natural	41
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Smoking	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	5

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
30 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-045
17 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CAMDEN-010
6 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2006	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden 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
Deals Landing	1.9 miles	17
London Hill	2.0 miles	18
The Lakes	2.1 miles	17
Harrietts Bluff Village	2.3 miles	17
Kinlaw	2.7 miles	17
Mallard Pointe	2.8 miles	18
Forest Ridge	3.1 miles	17
Crooked River Plantation	3.1 miles	18

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 Q122596158

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 1671308. 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.