Buckhead, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Richmond Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31324. It stands on Sweet Hill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Limerick SE quadrangle. 4,441 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 16 feet above sea level.

Buckhead within Bryan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 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.

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 Limerick SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Limerick SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Buckhead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,060 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 69 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	72
Arson/incendiarism	69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	7
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
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1998	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 1993	Debris and open burning	17 acres	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
Keller	1.1 miles	17
Sweet Hill	1.3 miles	15
Oak Level	2.0 miles	15
Myrtle Grove	2.1 miles	17
Belfast	2.7 miles	17
Rabbit Hill	3.4 miles	18
Port Royal	3.7 miles	18
Fort McAllister	4.3 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.

Wikipedia article on Buckhead	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q106740607	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 2806015. 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.