Cedar Hammock, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31406. It lies near Isle of Hope. The Survey maps it on the Isle of Hope quadrangle.

Cedar Hammock within Chatham County

On record in Cedar Hammock

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 1 record

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

Bethesda Home for Boyslisted 1973 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

1944 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Isle of Hope quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Isle of Hope quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Hammock between 1992 and 2017, burning about 325 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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	21
Arson/incendiarism	19
Recreation and ceremony	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Smoking	4
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
2 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATHAM-002
26 July 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 June 1996	Debris and open burning	4.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 June 1996	Recreation and ceremony	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 June 1993	Debris and open burning	8.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 June 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-CHATHAM-055
2 June 2001	Recreation and ceremony	48 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CHATHAM-043

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Wormsloe	0.7 miles	15
Kings Wood	0.9 miles	15
Bethesda	1.0 miles	15
Bakers Crossing	1.0 miles	15
Cresthill	1.1 miles	15
Sandfly	1.1 miles	15
Wymberly	1.2 miles	15
Wymberly on the Marsh	1.2 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331356. 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.