Brushy Creek, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Keysville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30816. It stands on Little Brushy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Keysville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Brushy Creek within Burke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1919 USGS Gough quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Gough quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Keysville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Brushy Creek (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,273 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 36 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	140
Arson/incendiarism	36
Natural	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Natural	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BURKE-014
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JEFFERSON010
26 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1997	Debris and open burning	8.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-BURKE-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burke 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
Keysville	2.6 miles	15
Saint Clair	3.2 miles	15
Dyes Crossroad	4.0 miles	15
Walker Grove Settlement	4.3 miles	15
Le Roy (historical)	5.6 miles	15
Gough	7.3 miles	16
Grove Mount	7.4 miles	15
Elmore (historical)	9.0 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 347943. 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.