Commonwealth, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Columbus North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31820. The Survey maps it on the Midland quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Commonwealth within Muscogee 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.

1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1949 USGS Midland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Ellerslie quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Ellerslie quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Midland quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Commonwealth (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 188 acres in total. None 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	20
Arson/incendiarism	13
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MUSCOGEE-002
24 September 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MUSCOGEE001
21 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MUSCOGEE-001
13 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HARRIS-005
18 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HARRIS-004
11 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muscogee 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
Midland	2.5 miles	17
Beaver Run	2.6 miles	17
Flat Rock	3.2 miles	17
Foxrun	3.2 miles	17
Schatulga	3.6 miles	17
Farmington	3.7 miles	18
Upatoi	3.9 miles	17
Brookview Estates	3.9 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 357306. 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.