Camp Sherwood, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sylvester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31791. The Survey maps it on the Sylvester quadrangle.

Camp Sherwood within Worth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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
1956 USGS Sylvester quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Sylvester quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

379 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 379 fires within 5 miles of Camp Sherwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,829 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 57 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	278
Arson/incendiarism	57
Natural	13
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	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
8 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WORTH-003
8 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2013	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-WORTH-003
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-WORTH-004
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	9.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth 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
San Barnard (historical)	2.0 miles	9
Isabella	2.1 miles	9
Red Rock	3.9 miles	10
Gammage	3.9 miles	10
Willingham (historical)	4.1 miles	10
Shingler	4.6 miles	9
Sylvester	4.9 miles	9
Artesia (historical)	6.3 miles	10

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 Q122565918

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 343267. 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.