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Deerwood Acres, Georgia

24 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Evans census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30809. It stands on Mount Enna Branch. The Survey maps it on the Evans quadrangle.

Deerwood Acres within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 24 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Deerwood Acres between 1992 and 2019, burning about 423 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 19 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 burning41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Arson/incendiarism19
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Natural5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking3

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
9 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-COLUMBIA-010
9 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-COLUMBIA-004
2 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-COLUMBIA-002
16 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-COLUMBIA-011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia 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
Deerwood Estates0.6 miles24
Snead0.9 miles25
Woodbridge1.0 miles24
Chimney Hill1.1 miles24
Fernbrook1.2 miles25
Creek View1.3 miles25
Country Place1.3 miles24
Camelot1.6 miles24

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 Q122547562The 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 348872. 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.