Catfish Acres, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Kingsland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31548. It stands on Little Catfish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kingsland quadrangle.

Catfish Acres within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1918 USGS Kingsland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Kingsland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Kingsland quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Kingsland quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

292 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 292 fires within 5 miles of Catfish Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 656 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 76 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	82
Arson/incendiarism	76
Misuse of fire by a minor	51
Natural	24
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	11
Smoking	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020CAMDEN003
4 August 2006	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-040

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden 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
Vacuna (historical)	0.8 miles	17
Greentree	0.9 miles	17
Fawnwood	0.9 miles	17
Terra Haute	1.2 miles	17
Gross Still (historical)	1.3 miles	17
Deer Run	1.4 miles	17
May Creek	1.5 miles	17
Creekwood	1.8 miles	17

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 Q122539136

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 1671321. 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.