BlockDukes, Georgia
19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hinesville census division. It stands on Taylors Creek. The Survey maps it on the Willie quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 19 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.
- 1920 USGS Pembroke quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Pembroke quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Pembroke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Willie quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
2 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Dukes (historical) between 1998 and 2018, burning about 3 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 2.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 March 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018LIBERTY017 |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willie | 2.6 miles | 19 | |
| Strain (historical) | 2.8 miles | 16 | |
| Lida (historical) | 3.5 miles | 16 | |
| Strum Bay (historical) | 4.3 miles | 19 | |
| Taylors Creek (historical) | 5.7 miles | 18 | |
| Darlot | 6.3 miles | 18 | |
| Trinity | 9.7 miles | 18 | |
| Bryan Village | 9.9 miles | 18 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 357066. 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.