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Cumslo, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Gray-Macon East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31032. The Survey maps it on the Macon NE quadrangle.

Cumslo within Jones County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

Fires near this place

356 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 356 fires within 5 miles of Cumslo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 669 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 28 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 burning216
Misuse of fire by a minor35
Arson/incendiarism28
Equipment and vehicle use23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony15
Smoking11
Natural9
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019JONES001
3 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-JONES-003
23 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JONES008
23 September 1997Debris and open burning22 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019JONES004
17 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cumslo: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hitchcock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Weston & Brooker Co Ruby QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jones 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pitts1.4 miles12
Morton2.2 miles12
Postell2.2 miles12
James2.6 miles10
Greenberry Crossroads3.6 miles10
Clinton4.1 miles12
Gray4.4 miles11
Mountain Springs4.6 miles10

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 Q122563754The 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 331495. 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.