Cottondale, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Parrott census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39842. It stands on Reedy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bottsford quadrangle.

Cottondale within Terrell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Bottsford quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Cottondale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 522 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 1 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	82
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
25 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-WEBSTER-002
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TERRELL-004
20 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019SUMTER001
16 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-WEBSTER-002
8 August 2020	Natural	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021WEBSTER001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Terrell 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
Worner (historical)	1.5 miles	7
Pleasant Hill	2.8 miles	7
Chenube (historical)	3.9 miles	7
Oakville	4.1 miles	7
Parrott	4.2 miles	7
Yeomans	5.3 miles	7
Chambliss	5.7 miles	7
Olivers Mill	5.9 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 344638. 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.