Captolo, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Newington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30467. It stands on Robbins Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hunters quadrangle.

Captolo within Screven County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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.

1918 USGS Oliver quadrangle1:62500
1920 USGS Oliver quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Millen quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Oliver quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Hunters quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

277 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 277 fires within 5 miles of Captolo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,332 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 33 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	177
Arson/incendiarism	33
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Natural	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	5

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 2010	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-SCREVEN-033
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-SCREVEN-011
26 September 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	7.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020SCREVEN004
25 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2005	Debris and open burning	4.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	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 Screven 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
Hunters	3.2 miles	16
Sheppards	3.4 miles	16
Middleground	3.6 miles	16
White Hill	4.0 miles	16
Eureka Springs (historical)	4.4 miles	16
Farmdale	5.2 miles	16
Double Heads	5.4 miles	16
Newington	5.5 miles	16

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 Q122539728

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 312331. 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.