Buckhead, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Devereux census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31087. It stands on Little Island Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Sinclair East quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Buckhead within Hancock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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.

1912 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Lake Sinclair East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

217 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 217 fires within 5 miles of Buckhead (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 901 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 23 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	116
Arson/incendiarism	23
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Natural	13
Recreation and ceremony	9
Smoking	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HANCOCK-002
3 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2018	Debris and open burning	5.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019HANCOCK004
20 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-BALDWIN-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock 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
Sandy Run	3.7 miles	14
Devereux	6.4 miles	13
Harpertown (historical)	8.5 miles	13
Beulah	8.6 miles	13
Glenford (historical)	9.1 miles	10
Howell Grove	9.7 miles	10
Zebulon	10.3 miles	13
Shoulderbone	10.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334843. 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.