Crossroads, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Riceboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31323. The Survey maps it on the Riceboro quadrangle.

Crossroads within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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.

1920 USGS Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Riceboro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Riceboro quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

540 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 540 fires within 5 miles of Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,810 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 163 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	276
Arson/incendiarism	163
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Natural	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020LIBERTY007
26 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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
Riceboro	1.8 miles	14
Screven Fork	2.3 miles	16
Retreat	4.0 miles	14
Midway	4.4 miles	16
Dorchester	4.5 miles	16
Lecount	4.7 miles	14
McIntosh	6.3 miles	18
Seabrook	7.1 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331484. 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.