BlockCottage Mills, Georgia
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Benning census division. It lies near Hutchcraft Hill. The Survey maps it on the Fort Benning quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 23 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.
- 1908 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1929 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:48000
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Fort Benning quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Fort Benning 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 Americus quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
4 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Cottage Mills (historical) between 2000 and 2012, burning about 27 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 May 2000 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2000-CHATTAHOOCHEE-012 |
| 4 May 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2000-CHATTAHOOCHEE-013 |
| 4 May 2000 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2000-CHATTAHOOCHEE-014 |
| 26 May 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-CHATTAHOOCHEE-008 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jamestown | 3.2 miles | 25 | |
| Shack (historical) | 5.6 miles | 23 | |
| Fort Benning | 5.6 miles | 23 | |
| Central Springs | 5.7 miles | 25 | |
| Cusseta | 6.2 miles | 25 | |
| Woolfolk (historical) | 6.3 miles | 23 | |
| Kasihta (historical) | 6.4 miles | 23 | |
| McDaniel Manor | 6.5 miles | 23 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 351015. 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.