Colerain, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Kingsland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31537. It sits by Coleraine Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Boulogne quadrangle.

Colerain within Camden 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.

1917 USGS Boulogne quadrangle1:62500
1919 USGS Boulogne quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Boulogne quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of Colerain between 1992 and 2019, burning about 870 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 25 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	60
Natural	38
Arson/incendiarism	25
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	SILVER TRAIL (45)
20 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	LAKE HAMPTON RD (45)
17 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	45 PROSPECT LANDING 2010-07-0486
16 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-CHARLTON-014
10 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden 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
Greenville	4.2 miles	17
Flea Hill	4.3 miles	17
Silco	4.4 miles	17
Bullhead Bluff	4.6 miles	17
Mays Bluff	5.1 miles	17
Germantown (historical)	5.9 miles	17
Hazlehurst	6.5 miles	17
Burnt Fort	7.8 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355237. 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.