Dawson Heights, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the West Dougherty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31707. The Survey maps it on the Albany West quadrangle.

Dawson Heights within Dougherty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Albany West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Albany West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

249 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 249 fires within 5 miles of Dawson Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 600 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 57 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	108
Arson/incendiarism	57
Misuse of fire by a minor	34
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Natural	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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-LEE-004
27 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dougherty 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
Westgate	0.2 miles	13
Pointe North	0.8 miles	13
Sherwood Acres	0.8 miles	13
Fairfield	0.9 miles	13
Audubon	1.0 miles	13
Lake Park	1.0 miles	13
Westwood	1.0 miles	13
Westhampton	1.1 miles	13

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 Q122539847

The 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 1671071. 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.