Clearview, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Savannah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31415. It lies near Hutchinson Island. The Survey maps it on the Savannah quadrangle.

Clearview within Chatham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1942 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Clearview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,581 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 16 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	43
Debris and open burning	21
Arson/incendiarism	16
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
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
30 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021CHATHAM001
25 August 2016	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATHAM-004
4 July 2019	Natural	279 acres	Savannah Refuges	EAST MARSH
19 July 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 June 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 June 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 June 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Clearview: 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 plant. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Pigment. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Douglas Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Savannah Plant Ti	Titanium, Pigment	Plant	1955
Flintkote/ Savannah, Ga.	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer
National Gypsum/ Savannah, Ga.	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Chatham 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
Savannah	1.2 miles	17
Woodville	1.3 miles	15
Carver Village	1.4 miles	17
Alabama Junction	1.5 miles	15
Rossignol Hill	1.5 miles	15
Florida Junction	1.5 miles	15
Telfair Junction	1.6 miles	15
Cloverdale	1.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331413. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.