Comfort, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the White Plains census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30678. It stands on Double Creek. The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Comfort within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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
1972 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Comfort (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 406 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 6 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	46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Smoking	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
18 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-GREENE-002
11 September 2005	Debris and open burning	4.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-GREENE-006
9 August 1992	Natural	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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
Liberty	2.4 miles	11
Ruth (historical)	4.3 miles	11
Flat Rock (historical)	5.4 miles	11
Mosquito Crossing	6.2 miles	11
Swaggy Valley	7.3 miles	11
White Plains	8.1 miles	11
Veazey	8.1 miles	11
Siloam	10.9 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 348657. 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.