Deerbrook, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Bogart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30677. The Survey maps it on the Statham quadrangle.

Deerbrook within Oconee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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.

1896 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Statham quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Deerbrook between 1992 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 17 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	56
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Natural	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	5

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
8 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	6.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconee 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
Sagamore Hills	1.1 miles	15
Briar Lakes	1.2 miles	15
Fieldstone	1.3 miles	15
Canyon Creek	1.4 miles	15
Jennings Mill	1.5 miles	15
Overlook Village	1.8 miles	15
Pleasant Hills	1.9 miles	18
Osceola Village	2.0 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356719. 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.