Burney Hill, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Adel-Sparks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31620. The Survey maps it on the Ellenton quadrangle.

Burney Hill within Cook County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Ellenton quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

275 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 275 fires within 5 miles of Burney Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,616 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 15 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	207
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Arson/incendiarism	15
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	3
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 1995	Debris and open burning	6.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-COOK-008
19 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-COOK-010
19 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-COOK-009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Cook County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Burney Hill: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Adel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Cook 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
Nola (historical)	1.1 miles	8
Berrien (historical)	1.9 miles	8
Flat Ford	4.0 miles	8
Sparks	4.8 miles	8
Barneyville	5.1 miles	8
Laconte	5.3 miles	8
Adel	5.9 miles	8
Wagon Wheel	6.0 miles	8

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 Q122568366

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 331287. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.