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Elliotts Plantation, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the St. Marys census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31558. It sits by Mush Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Harrietts Bluff quadrangle.

Elliotts Plantation within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

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 Elliotts Plantation between 1992 and 2020, burning about 506 acres in total. 47 started naturally. 45 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 burning51
Natural47
Arson/incendiarism45
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony2

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
29 September 2016Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CAMDEN-009
26 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CAMDEN-045
17 September 1997Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2010Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CAMDEN-010
4 August 2006Debris and open burning15 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2000Natural17 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CAMDEN-037

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Foxwood0.3 miles18
River Cove0.5 miles18
Palmas Realas0.5 miles18
Elliotts Bluff0.8 miles18
London Hill2.0 miles18
Crooked River Plantation2.1 miles18
Harrietts Bluff2.3 miles18
River Oaks at Harrietts Bluff2.4 miles18

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 Q122596013The 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 1671329. 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.