Dodge High, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eastman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31023. The Survey maps it on the Eastman quadrangle.

Dodge High within Dodge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Eastman quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

745 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 745 fires within 5 miles of Dodge High between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,136 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 110 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	448
Arson/incendiarism	110
Equipment and vehicle use	56
Misuse of fire by a minor	34
Natural	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Recreation and ceremony	19
Smoking	18
Railroad operations and maintenance	10

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 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021DODGE007
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-DODGE-017
4 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-DODGE-021
3 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge 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
Dempsey	1.2 miles	9
Eastman	3.5 miles	9
Gresston	4.0 miles	10
Dubois	5.6 miles	10
Lowery	5.6 miles	9
Amoskeag (historical)	5.7 miles	9
Carne (historical)	6.8 miles	10
Beehive (historical)	7.2 miles	8

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 Q122570356

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 313517. 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.