Cedar Lake, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the West Dougherty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31721. The Survey maps it on the Pretoria quadrangle.

Cedar Lake within Dougherty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Sasser quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1973 USGS Pretoria quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 500 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 21 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	90
Arson/incendiarism	21
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	2
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-DOUGHERTY-003
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1997	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dougherty 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
Brookhollow	0.2 miles	10
Indian Creek	0.2 miles	10
Lockett Crossing	0.7 miles	10
Winterwood	1.1 miles	13
Southwind	1.7 miles	13
Springfield	1.7 miles	10
Greenbrier	1.8 miles	13
Gillionville Forest	2.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671058. 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.