Erastus, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It lies in ZIP code area 30530. It stands on Grove Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ashland quadrangle.

Erastus within Banks County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1891 USGS Carnesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Erastus between 1992 and 2020, burning about 328 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 10 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	92
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	10
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
2 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1996	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020FRANKLIN002
4 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1998	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-FRANKLIN-002
21 August 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 1992	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Banks 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
Hebron	2.5 miles	14
Five Points	2.7 miles	14
Arp	5.3 miles	14
Carlan	6.5 miles	14
Banks Crossing	6.5 miles	14
Jewelville	8.9 miles	14
Mount Pleasant	9.6 miles	14
Homer	10.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326270. 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.