Doboy, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Darien census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31305. It stands on Doboy Island. The Survey maps it on the Doboy Sound quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Doboy within McIntosh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1921 USGS Darien quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Doboy Sound quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Doboy Sound quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Doboy Sound quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

52 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Doboy (historical) between 1993 and 2018, burning about 603 acres in total. None started naturally. 22 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
Arson/incendiarism	22
Debris and open burning	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MCINTOSH-005
3 July 1996	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 July 1996	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 July 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-MCINTOSH-001
12 July 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MCINTOSH-001
8 May 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-MCINTOSH-057

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McIntosh 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
Sapelo Island	2.6 miles	16
Ridgeville	3.9 miles	16
Carnigan	4.3 miles	16
Ashintilly	4.3 miles	16
Meridian	4.5 miles	16
Fairview	5.3 miles	16
Darien Heights	5.5 miles	16
Bel-Air	5.5 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356856. 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.