Chimney Villa, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Townsend census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31331. The Survey maps it on the Eulonia quadrangle.

Chimney Villa within McIntosh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 13 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.

1920 USGS Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Eulonia quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Eulonia quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

428 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 428 fires within 5 miles of Chimney Villa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,338 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 230 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
Arson/incendiarism	230
Debris and open burning	123
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Natural	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MCINTOSH-009
7 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-MCINTOSH-003
7 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	7.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McIntosh 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
South Newport	1.4 miles	14
Jones	4.3 miles	14
Brickston	4.7 miles	13
Pine Harbor	4.9 miles	13
Shellman Bluff	5.1 miles	15
Warsaw	5.2 miles	13
Fairhope	5.4 miles	13
Eulonia	5.8 miles	13

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 Q122540323

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 356841. 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.