Elton, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Vidalia-Lyons census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30436. The Survey maps it on the Cobbtown quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Elton within Toombs County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Cobbtown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Vidalia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

361 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 361 fires within 5 miles of Elton (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,879 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 62 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	198
Arson/incendiarism	62
Equipment and vehicle use	36
Recreation and ceremony	17
Natural	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Smoking	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TATTNALL011
26 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-TOOMBS-003
18 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2018	Natural	78 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019TOOMBS003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Toombs 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
Ponderosa	4.2 miles	10
Lyons	5.4 miles	10
Ohoopee	5.4 miles	9
Santa Claus	7.4 miles	10
Normantown	7.4 miles	9
Vidalia	9.3 miles	9
Charles	10.0 miles	9
Center	11.9 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 345173. 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.