Brookman, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Thalmann census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31523. It stands on College Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bladen quadrangle.

Brookman within Glynn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1918 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

225 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Brookman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,073 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 24 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	76
Railroad operations and maintenance	55
Natural	36
Arson/incendiarism	24
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
28 September 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-GLYNN-002
17 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2006	Natural	6.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2006	Natural	5.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2008	Natural	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2006	Natural	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2006	Natural	32 acres	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
Georgetown	1.8 miles	18
Bethel (historical)	1.9 miles	18
Union (historical)	1.9 miles	18
Hayner	3.9 miles	18
Jamaica	4.2 miles	16
Bladen	4.3 miles	18
Deerwood	4.7 miles	19
Glynn Camp	5.0 miles	19

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 Q122562656

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 331245. 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.