Dumas, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Preston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31824. It stands on Lanahassee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Plains quadrangle.

Dumas within Webster 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Plains quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Dumas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 288 acres in total. 8 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	82
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Smoking	7
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	1
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
9 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WEBSTER-003
19 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-WEBSTER-001
16 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster 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
Archery	2.4 miles	8
Gooseberry (historical)	2.7 miles	7
Preston	3.0 miles	7
Centerpoint	4.3 miles	7
Leveretts	7.9 miles	7
Weston	7.9 miles	7
Kimbrough	8.7 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331597. 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.