Clopton, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Little River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31024. It stands on Cold Branch. The Survey maps it on the Resseaus Crossroads quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Clopton within Putnam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Resseaus Crossroads quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

189 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Clopton (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 763 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 13 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	106
Natural	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Arson/incendiarism	13
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021PUTNAM002
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-PUTNAM-006
17 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-JONES-006
16 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020PUTNAM001
14 September 1997	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-PUTNAM-002
11 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam 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
Resseaus Crossroads	1.6 miles	12
Glenwoods Spring (historical)	3.0 miles	11
Note	3.5 miles	11
Stanfordville	3.7 miles	12
Hallwood	3.9 miles	10
Huron (historical)	4.4 miles	11
Nona	4.5 miles	10
Dennis	4.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 347194. 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.