Ella Park, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Woodbine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31565. It lies near Cedar Island. The Survey maps it on the Dover Bluff quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ella Park within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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 Bladen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Dover Bluff quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Dover Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Dover Bluff quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Ella Park (historical) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,184 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 28 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
Natural	53
Debris and open burning	52
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Arson/incendiarism	28
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
8 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden 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
Hickory Bluff	2.2 miles	18
Lampadocia (historical)	2.9 miles	18
Piney Bluff	3.2 miles	18
Hogan	3.3 miles	18
Dover Bluff	3.7 miles	18
Satilla Shores	4.4 miles	18
Spring Bluff	4.5 miles	18
Red Bluff	6.7 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671335. 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.