Fincher Farms, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the South Newton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30016. It stands on Potts Creek. The Survey maps it on the Stewart quadrangle.

Fincher Farms within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Stewart quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

292 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 292 fires within 5 miles of Fincher Farms between 1992 and 2019, burning about 654 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 29 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	165
Arson/incendiarism	29
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Natural	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Recreation and ceremony	12
Smoking	12

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 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-NEWTON-003
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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
Stewart	1.3 miles	12
Saddle Acres	1.8 miles	12
Malcolm Woods	2.8 miles	12
Sherwood Forest	3.3 miles	12
Hollow Oaks	3.7 miles	11
Idlewood	3.8 miles	12
Lakeside Grove	4.0 miles	12
Long Acres	4.1 miles	12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122596323

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1673479. 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.