Dewsville, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Milford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39870. The Survey maps it on the Bethany quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Dewsville within Baker County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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
1974 USGS Bethany quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

110 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Dewsville (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 544 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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	79
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BAKER-002
8 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	9.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Debris and open burning	4.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-BAKER-002
18 August 2017	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-BAKER-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baker 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
Elmodel	3.0 miles	9
Milford	3.1 miles	8
Patmos	3.3 miles	8
Bethany	4.3 miles	8
Iveys Mill	4.8 miles	8
Crestview	4.8 miles	8
Mimsville	5.7 miles	8
Hawkinstown	6.6 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2705540. 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.