Davis, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Altamaha River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31513. The Survey maps it on the Baxley NE quadrangle.

Davis within Appling 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
1970 USGS Baxley NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

183 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Davis between 1992 and 2020, burning about 587 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 10 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	117
Natural	16
Arson/incendiarism	10
Smoking	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6

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
5 September 2008	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020APPLING025
18 September 2011	Smoking	8.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-APPLING-033
15 September 1993	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2019	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020APPLING015
11 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-APPLING-029
1 September 1994	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2011	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-APPLING-010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Appling 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
Eason Bluff	4.0 miles	7
Zion	4.7 miles	7
Spring Branch	6.4 miles	8
McTier	6.4 miles	7
Falling Rocks	6.8 miles	8
Bethel	7.7 miles	7
Cook Heights	8.7 miles	8
Warrick Homes	8.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331517. 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.