BlockCobbham, Georgia
20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Thomson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30802. The Survey maps it on the Winfield quadrangle.
On record in Cobbham
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record
- Ignatius Few House, Cobbhamfederal building survey, 2 photographs
Topographic sheets covering this place
12 surveys from 20 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1892 USGS Mc Cormick quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1912 USGS Mc Cormick quadrangle1:125000
- 1921 USGS Appling quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1943 USGS Appling quadrangle1:62500
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Winfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Winfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Photographs
1 photograph,Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
210 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 210 fires within 5 miles of Cobbham between 1992 and 2020, burning about 768 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 21 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 | 134 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 21 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Smoking | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
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 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020COLUMBIA001 |
| 7 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-MCDUFFIE-009 |
| 19 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | 7.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-MCDUFFIE-012 |
| 15 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cobbham Crossroads | 1.1 miles | 20 | |
| Rousseau Spring (historical) | 2.2 miles | 20 | |
| Stones Crossroads | 3.2 miles | 20 | |
| Hamilton Crossroads | 3.3 miles | 20 | |
| Shiloh (historical) | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Ansley Mill | 3.5 miles | 20 | |
| Scuffletown | 3.6 miles | 20 | |
| Raysville | 4.3 miles | 20 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331423. 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.