Chehaw, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Philema census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31763. It stands on Negro Head Branch. The Survey maps it on the Albany NE quadrangle.

Chehaw within Lee 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 Albany quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1973 USGS Albany NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

230 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Chehaw between 1992 and 2020, burning about 666 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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	159
Arson/incendiarism	25
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	4
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WORTH-006
25 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-LEE-008
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	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 Lee 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
Beloit	2.8 miles	10
Philema	3.6 miles	10
Stocks	4.2 miles	10
Stocks (historical)	4.3 miles	10
Mossy Dell	4.9 miles	10
Nutview (historical)	6.2 miles	10
Century	6.3 miles	10
Leesburg	6.6 miles	10

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.

Wikipedia article on Chehaw	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888665	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 334180. 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.