Eureka, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sparta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31087. The Survey maps it on the Warthen NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Eureka within Hancock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Warthen NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

144 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 144 fires within 5 miles of Eureka (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,232 acres in total. 9 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	94
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	9
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
8 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HANCOCK-024
30 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HANCOCK-023
22 September 2018	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019HANCOCK003
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WASHINGTON-013
13 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock 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
Culverton	7.9 miles	10
Sunshine (historical)	7.9 miles	10
Granite Hill	8.1 miles	10
Zebulon	9.0 miles	13
Sparta	9.0 miles	10
Linton	10.4 miles	11
Mayfield	10.5 miles	10
Glenford (historical)	11.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 348203. 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.