Crofton, Georgia

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.

• 1892 USGS Mc Cormick quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1912 USGS Mc Cormick quadrangle1:125000
• 1920 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:48000
• 1921 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1941 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1942 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:62500
• 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
• 1964 USGS Martinez quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Crofton between 1992 and 2019, burning about 408 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 88 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Foxhall
• Brynwood
• Conifer Place
• Dorchester
• Greenbrier
• Highgate

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Crofton: 5 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 past producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Richmond County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 358159. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.