Carver Village, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Savannah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31415. The Survey maps it on the Savannah quadrangle.

Carver Village within Chatham County

On record in Carver Village

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Carver Village Historic Districtlisted 2019 · 0.1 miles away
Springfield Terrace Schoollisted 2022 · 0.3 miles away
Savannah Water Works Pump Houselisted 2022 · 0.4 miles away
Laurel Grove-South Cemeterylisted 1978 · 0.7 miles away
Laurel Grove-North Cemeterylisted 1983 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1942 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Carver Village between 1992 and 2020, burning about 577 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 18 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	34
Debris and open burning	22
Arson/incendiarism	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Natural	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
30 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021CHATHAM001
25 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATHAM-004
19 July 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 June 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 June 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 June 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Carver Village: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Pigment. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Douglas Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Savannah Plant Ti	Titanium, Pigment	Plant	1955
Flintkote/ Savannah, Ga.	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
National Gypsum/ Savannah, Ga.	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer

Every working 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
Florida Junction	0.5 miles	15
Cloverdale	0.5 miles	15
Ogeecheeton	0.9 miles	15
Alabama Junction	1.1 miles	15
Tremont Park	1.2 miles	15
Savannah	1.4 miles	17
Clearview	1.4 miles	17
Union Junction	1.5 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331335. 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.