Brobston, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Everett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31525. The Survey maps it on the Sterling quadrangle.

Brobston within Glynn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 Everett City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1920 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Sterling quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

282 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 282 fires within 5 miles of Brobston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 854 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 70 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	109
Arson/incendiarism	70
Natural	33
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	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
9 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-GLYNN-002
17 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2005	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 Glynn 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
Sterling	0.9 miles	17
Pyles Marsh	1.2 miles	19
Shady Acres	1.5 miles	19
Groveside Park	2.1 miles	17
High Hill Lake	2.2 miles	19
Pine Haven	2.3 miles	17
Ridgewood Plantation	2.4 miles	19
Anguilla	2.4 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 Q122569459

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 311816. 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.