Burnside View, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31406. It lies near Marsh Island. The Survey maps it on the Isle of Hope quadrangle.

Burnside View within Chatham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1944 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Isle of Hope quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Isle of Hope quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Burnside View between 1992 and 2017, burning about 420 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 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	18
Arson/incendiarism	16
Recreation and ceremony	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
2 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2006	Natural	105 acres	Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge	FLORA HAMMOCK FIRE
3 August 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATHAM-002
26 July 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 June 1997	Natural	2.0 acres	Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge	F.HAMMOCK
4 June 1996	Debris and open burning	4.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 June 1996	Recreation and ceremony	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 June 1993	Debris and open burning	8.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham 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
Rio Vista	0.4 miles	15
Vernon View	0.9 miles	15
Beaulieu	1.7 miles	15
Pin Point	1.9 miles	15
Skidaway Island	1.9 miles	15
Burnside	1.9 miles	15
Montgomery	2.3 miles	15
Bethesda	2.6 miles	15

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 Q122550397

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 325783. 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.