Cherry Creek Hills, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Barretts census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31605. It stands on Cherry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hahira East quadrangle.

Cherry Creek Hills within Lowndes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Hahira East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

402 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 402 fires within 5 miles of Cherry Creek Hills between 1992 and 2020, burning about 874 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 92 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	194
Arson/incendiarism	92
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Smoking	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Railroad operations and maintenance	12
Natural	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	6

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 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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
Windsor Park	1.2 miles	9
Cherokee Plantation	1.4 miles	9
Foxborough	1.8 miles	9
Oak	1.9 miles	9
Country Club Estates	1.9 miles	9
Barko Village	1.9 miles	9
Schoer Estates	2.2 miles	9
Northwood	2.2 miles	9

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.

Wikidata item Q122556915

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 346215. 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.