Cherokee, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lizella census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31220. It stands on Trinity Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lizella quadrangle.

Cherokee within Bibb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1956 USGS Bolingbroke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Lizella quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

155 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Cherokee between 1992 and 2019, burning about 595 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 31 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	74
Arson/incendiarism	31
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Smoking	7
Natural	3

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
8 September 2007	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BIBB-003
21 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-MONROE-011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb 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
Trails End	0.4 miles	11
Camelot	0.5 miles	11
Dixie	0.7 miles	11
Kings Cove	0.7 miles	11
Tara	0.9 miles	11
Lakeview	1.1 miles	11
Christophers Cove	1.8 miles	11
Wimbledon Woods	2.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672072. 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.