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Echeconnee Acres, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lizella census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31216. The Survey maps it on the Byron quadrangle.

Echeconnee Acres within Bibb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

370 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 370 fires within 5 miles of Echeconnee Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,360 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 73 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 burning174
Arson/incendiarism73
Misuse of fire by a minor42
Equipment and vehicle use22
Natural17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Smoking12
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2016Debris and open burning3.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CRAWFORD-005
5 September 2016Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CRAWFORD-003
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-PEACH-011
30 September 1995Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2015Arson/incendiarism5.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-CRAWFORD-012
28 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-PEACH-005
28 September 1994Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HOUSTON-010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Echeconnee Acres: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
J&J Lumber Co. QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Bibb 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lake Sardis Estates0.9 miles12
Sardis Estates1.9 miles12
Fairystone2.7 miles12
Goodall Estates2.8 miles12
Rogers Acres2.9 miles11
Coal Neck Settlement (historical)3.0 miles14
Bevinwood3.4 miles12
Angels Acres3.4 miles11

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 Q122565414The 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 1672106. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.