Enal, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Brooklet census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30458. It stands on Gum Branch. The Survey maps it on the Nevils quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Enal within Bulloch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1920 USGS Statesboro quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Statesboro quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Nevils quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

215 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Enal (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,014 acres in total. 7 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
Debris and open burning	148
Arson/incendiarism	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	7
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
29 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019BULLOCH006
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BULLOCH012
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BULLOCH-007
22 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bulloch 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
Nevils	2.7 miles	16
Denmark	3.0 miles	14
Emit	3.5 miles	14
Overbrook	4.8 miles	19
Bowen Mill	5.1 miles	19
Mitchell Forks	5.6 miles	18
Anderson Mill	5.8 miles	19
Statesborough	6.4 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 350339. 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.