Eureka Springs, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Newington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30467. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Oliver quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Eureka Springs within Screven County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1918 USGS Oliver quadrangle1:62500
1920 USGS Oliver quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Millen quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Oliver 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 Oliver quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

244 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Eureka Springs (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,560 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 44 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	146
Arson/incendiarism	44
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-SCREVEN-030
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-SCREVEN-028
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-SCREVEN-029
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-SCREVEN-031
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-SCREVEN-026
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-SCREVEN-027
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-SCREVEN-025
7 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-SCREVEN-024

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Screven 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
Newington	1.4 miles	16
Sheppards	2.3 miles	16
Middleground	2.5 miles	16
Hunters	3.7 miles	16
Captolo	4.4 miles	16
Blue Springs	5.4 miles	15
Stalco	5.5 miles	16
White Hill	5.8 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334892. 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.