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Five Points, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Valdosta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31602. The Survey maps it on the Valdosta quadrangle.

Five Points within Lowndes County

On record in Five Points

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

426 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 426 fires within 5 miles of Five Points between 1992 and 2020, burning about 828 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 99 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 burning179
Arson/incendiarism99
Equipment and vehicle use39
Misuse of fire by a minor32
Smoking31
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony8

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
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1995Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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
Northwood0.5 miles9
Highland Heights0.9 miles9
Joree Springs0.9 miles9
Pebblewood0.9 miles9
Country Club Estates1.1 miles9
Eager1.1 miles9
South Ree Springs1.2 miles9
Windsor Park1.2 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331722. 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.