BlockDeWitt, Georgia
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Baconton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31716. It sits by Red Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Baconton North quadrangle. It stands 171 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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 Baconton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Baconton North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
279 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 279 fires within 5 miles of DeWitt between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,112 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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 | 149 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 81 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 11 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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.
| Wikipedia article on DeWitt | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q4845905 | 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 355467. 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.