Ebenezer, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rincon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31326. It stands on Ebenezer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hardeeville NW quadrangle.

Ebenezer within Effingham County

On record in Ebenezer

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Ebenezer Townsite and Jerusalem Lutheran Churchlisted 1974 · 0.2 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

1920 USGS Hardeeville quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Hardeeville quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Hardeeville quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Hardeeville NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Ebenezer between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,355 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 59 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	75
Arson/incendiarism	59
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Natural	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	4

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
3 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020EFFINGHAM004
8 August 2008	Natural	100 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-EFFINGHAM-017
20 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 August 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Effingham 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
Stillwell	3.6 miles	16
Birds	4.2 miles	16
Haddonville	4.7 miles	15
Berryville	5.3 miles	16
Rincon	6.3 miles	16
Rahns	6.8 miles	16
Springfield	6.9 miles	16
Spring Branch	7.1 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 350215. 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.