Devereaux Estates, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Perry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31069. It stands on Beulah Branch. The Survey maps it on the Warner Robins SW quadrangle.

Devereaux Estates within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1956 USGS Warner Robins quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Warner Robins SW quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

398 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 398 fires within 5 miles of Devereaux Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,143 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 42 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	218
Equipment and vehicle use	47
Misuse of fire by a minor	42
Arson/incendiarism	42
Smoking	17
Natural	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	9

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
7 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021HOUSTON002
7 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-PEACH-007
5 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2017	Debris and open burning	26 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-PEACH-001
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	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 Houston 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
Cardinal Ridge	1.3 miles	12
Shady Grove	1.9 miles	12
Wildwood Estates	2.0 miles	11
Houston Lake Woods	2.5 miles	12
Heard	2.5 miles	12
Houston Lake	2.6 miles	11
Fox Ridge Estates	2.7 miles	11
The Heather on Houston Lake	3.0 miles	12

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 Q122555356

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 1671652. 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.