Cheevertown, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Milford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39837. The Survey maps it on the Cooktown quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cheevertown within Baker County

On record in Cheevertown

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.

Notchaway Baptist Church and Cemeterylisted 2001 · 0.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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
1974 USGS Cooktown quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Cheevertown (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,222 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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	111
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Smoking	6
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-MILLER-002
6 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MILLER-003
23 July 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 July 2000	Natural	49 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-MILLER-006
13 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baker 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
Hoggard Mill	3.1 miles	9
Lamar	3.7 miles	9
Mimsville	4.5 miles	8
Hawkinstown	6.2 miles	9
Bethany	9.2 miles	8
Dewsville (historical)	10.2 miles	8
Elmodel	11.0 miles	9
Crestview	11.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2705539. 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.