Fairway Oaks, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Brunswick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31525. It stands on Hog Crawl Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brunswick East quadrangle.

Fairway Oaks within Glynn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1945 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Brunswick East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Brunswick East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

254 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 254 fires within 5 miles of Fairway Oaks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 967 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 95 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/incendiarism	95
Debris and open burning	63
Misuse of fire by a minor	32
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Natural	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
9 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1999	Natural	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2018	Natural	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019GLYNN001
25 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glynn 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
Kensington Park	0.3 miles	17
Glynco Annex	0.4 miles	17
Country Club Park	0.5 miles	17
Waverly Pines Park	0.6 miles	17
Belle Point Estates	0.7 miles	17
Country Club Estates	0.8 miles	17
Kinstle	1.2 miles	17
Beverly Shores	1.3 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671499. 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.