Edgewood, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fort Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31030. The Survey maps it on the Fort Valley East quadrangle.

Edgewood within Peach 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.

1956 USGS Fort Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Fort Valley East quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

331 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 331 fires within 5 miles of Edgewood between 1992 and 2018, burning about 665 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 42 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	183
Arson/incendiarism	42
Equipment and vehicle use	33
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Natural	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Smoking	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
9 September 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-PEACH-007
6 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-PEACH-006
30 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Peach 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
Albaugh	1.1 miles	10
Bryn Mawr	1.7 miles	10
Indian Oaks	1.9 miles	11
Peach Valley	1.9 miles	11
Biss	2.1 miles	10
Ohio	2.2 miles	10
Miami Valley	2.3 miles	10
Fort Valley	2.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1730640. 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.