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Evergreen, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hinesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31313. The Survey maps it on the Hinesville quadrangle.

Evergreen within Liberty County

On record in Evergreen

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

425 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 425 fires within 5 miles of Evergreen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,570 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 194 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
Arson/incendiarism194
Debris and open burning128
Misuse of fire by a minor62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural7
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2008Arson/incendiarism2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2004Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019LONG002
16 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019LIBERTY001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Pineview0.4 miles18
Hinesville0.8 miles18
Ashmore0.8 miles18
Northwest Woods0.9 miles18
Olmstead1.0 miles18
Harrison Heights1.1 miles18
Bowen1.1 miles18
Sandy Run1.2 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 357068. 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.