English Eddy, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cedar Crossing census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30436. It stands on Williams Creek. The Survey maps it on the Baxley NE quadrangle.

English Eddy within Toombs County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Baxley NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

326 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 326 fires within 5 miles of English Eddy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,103 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 52 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	170
Arson/incendiarism	52
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Recreation and ceremony	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Natural	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Smoking	6

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
7 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TOOMBS-010
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020APPLING029
24 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TOOMBS010
18 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-TOOMBS-019
17 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TOOMBS-011
17 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

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
Grays Landing	4.1 miles	8
Cedar Crossing	4.7 miles	8
Toombs Central	5.4 miles	9
McNatt Falls	6.1 miles	8
Johnson Corner	7.2 miles	9
Rock Springs	7.8 miles	8
New Branch	9.6 miles	9
South Thompson	9.6 miles	9

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 Q122569130

The 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 326267. 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.