Cottonham, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Richmond Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31324. It lies near Savage Island. The Survey maps it on the Oak Level quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cottonham within Bryan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

1944 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Oak Level quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Oak Level quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Cottonham (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 524 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 19 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	29
Arson/incendiarism	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 1998	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1998	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 1993	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bryan 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
Fort McAllister	1.7 miles	17
Oak Level	2.7 miles	15
Sweet Hill	3.7 miles	15
Myrtle Grove	3.7 miles	17
Keller	4.4 miles	17
Buckhead	4.6 miles	17
Rabbit Hill	5.5 miles	18
Port Royal	6.7 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 350507. 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.