BlockCredit Hill, Georgia
13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Townsend census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31331. The Survey maps it on the Townsend quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 13 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.
- 1943 USGS Ludowici quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
- 1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
586 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 586 fires within 5 miles of Credit Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,916 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 320 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 320 |
| Debris and open burning | 166 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 34 |
| Natural | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 24 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 10 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 8.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 8.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2010 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-MCINTOSH-003 |
| 18 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | 9.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 12 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q122565839 | 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 326237. 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.