Crews Crossing, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It lies in ZIP code area 31550. The Survey maps it on the Pine Valley quadrangle.

Crews Crossing within Ware County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Pine Valley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Crews Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20,268 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 11 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	56
Natural	39
Arson/incendiarism	11
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
7 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	24 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-WARE-012
9 August 2014	Natural	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-WARE-008
9 August 2014	Natural	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-WARE-007
8 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WARE-007
25 August 2017	Natural	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-WARE-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ware 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
Hinson Crossing	3.9 miles	8
Pine Valley	4.2 miles	8
Hasty	5.1 miles	8
Fairfax	5.2 miles	8
Glenmore	5.5 miles	8
Sappville	5.5 miles	8
Viviani	5.7 miles	8
Manor	5.8 miles	8

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 Q122593984

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 331478. 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.