Elim, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ludowici North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31316. The Survey maps it on the Walthourville quadrangle.

Elim within Long County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1918 USGS Hinesville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1944 USGS Hinesville quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Hinesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Walthourville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

752 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 752 fires within 5 miles of Elim between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,828 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 262 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	278
Arson/incendiarism	262
Misuse of fire by a minor	90
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	38
Railroad operations and maintenance	26
Natural	21
Recreation and ceremony	13
Smoking	12
Equipment and vehicle use	12

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 2013	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-LONG-001
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-LIBERTY-005
4 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Long 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
Aimar	2.9 miles	17
Smiley Crossroads	6.8 miles	16
Ludowici	7.0 miles	13
Wefanie	7.7 miles	16
Brewer (historical)	8.0 miles	13
Roderick (historical)	8.1 miles	16
Donald	9.5 miles	16
Smiley (historical)	10.5 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326262. 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.