Fippin, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Round Oak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31038. It stands on Allisons Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dames Ferry quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Fippin within Jones County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 Dames Ferry quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

196 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 196 fires within 5 miles of Fippin (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 846 acres in total. 12 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	112
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Natural	12
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	11
Arson/incendiarism	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JONES005
3 September 1997	Natural	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1993	Natural	6.0 acres	Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge	COMP34WF
15 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-JONES-001
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-JONES-011
6 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge	C-20 GA-POWER
6 August 2007	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 Jones 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
Crutchfield (historical)	1.3 miles	11
Round Oak	4.4 miles	11
Smalls Crossing (historical)	4.4 miles	11
Campbell (historical)	4.7 miles	11
East Juliette	5.2 miles	13
Wayside	5.4 miles	11
Five Points	5.6 miles	11
Bradley	7.8 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 345349. 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.