Cushingville, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Millen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30442. It stands on Dry Branch. The Survey maps it on the Birdsville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Cushingville within Jenkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Birdsville quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

242 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Cushingville (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 613 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 54 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	130
Arson/incendiarism	54
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
4 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	8.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jenkins 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
Bennetts Landing	1.8 miles	7
Millen	3.2 miles	15
South Millen (historical)	3.2 miles	15
Emmalane	3.4 miles	15
Rogers	3.5 miles	7
Lawton	5.6 miles	15
Birdsville	5.7 miles	7
Butts	5.7 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 342976. 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.