Cohentown, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Washington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30673. It stands on Armstrong Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tignall quadrangle.

Cohentown within Wilkes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1906 USGS Crawfordville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Tignall quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Cohentown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 407 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 4 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	55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Natural	14
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	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
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WILKES-001
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WILKES-011
23 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	5.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WILKES-006
14 September 2010	Debris and open burning	7.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WILKES-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilkes 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
Armstrong (historical)	2.6 miles	12
Sandtown	3.3 miles	13
Washington	4.1 miles	13
Possie (historical)	4.1 miles	13
Ravenwood Park	4.2 miles	13
Jackson Heights	4.3 miles	12
Prather	4.4 miles	12
Washington Heights	4.6 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 Q122573165

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 331427. 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.