Camelot, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Evans census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30809. The Survey maps it on the Evans quadrangle.

Camelot within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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.

1892 USGS Mc Cormick quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1912 USGS Mc Cormick quadrangle1:125000
1920 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1941 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1942 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Evans quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Camelot between 1992 and 2019, burning about 353 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 34 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	60
Arson/incendiarism	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-COLUMBIA-010
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-RICHMOND-016
26 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-COLUMBIA-004
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020COLUMBIA002
20 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-RICHMOND-023
2 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia 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
Evans	0.4 miles	24
Country Place	0.6 miles	24
Chimney Hill	0.7 miles	24
Jamaica Estates	0.7 miles	25
Evans Mill	0.7 miles	25
Idylwilde	1.1 miles	24
Evanston	1.2 miles	24
Maysville (historical)	1.4 miles	25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 348857. 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.