Council, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 2006. It stands in the Fargo census division. The Survey maps it on the Council quadrangle.

Council within Clinch 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Council quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Okefenokee Swamp quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Council quadrangle1:24000
2006 USGS Council quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Council between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,251 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 10 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
Natural	39
Debris and open burning	11
Arson/incendiarism	10
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
22 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	National Forests in Florida	STATE ROAD 2
15 September 2010	Natural	1.5 acres	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	INDIAN MOUND FIRE
8 August 2006	Natural	32 acres	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	GA-6 (HUCKLEBERRY)
7 August 2014	Natural	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-CLINCH-008
29 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2016	Natural	9.0 acres	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	GA-4 (ROUGH ISLAND)
20 August 2000	Natural	11 acres	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	CYPRESSCK

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clinch 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
Edith	4.9 miles	7
Fargo	5.5 miles	7
Vickers Crossing	9.4 miles	7
Colon	11.4 miles	7
Williamsburg	11.6 miles	7
Ernest	13.9 miles	8
Jamestown	22.0 miles	8
Magnolia	22.3 miles	7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Council	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888699	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331464. 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.