Downs, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Norris census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30820. The Survey maps it on the Beall Springs quadrangle.

Downs within Warren County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Beall Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

218 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Downs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,263 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 6 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	130
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Smoking	14
Natural	12
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
6 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WARREN010
22 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-WARREN-003
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WARREN008
19 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WARREN007
13 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WARREN006
10 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren 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
Beall Springs	1.1 miles	10
Four Points	1.8 miles	10
Jewell	3.6 miles	10
Ansley	3.9 miles	10
Stony Hill	4.6 miles	10
Norris	6.2 miles	10
Reese	7.8 miles	9
Warrenton	8.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 347687. 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.