Flea Hill, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Kingsland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31548. It stands on Mallets Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kings Ferry quadrangle.

Flea Hill within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1917 USGS Boulogne quadrangle1:62500
1919 USGS Boulogne quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Kings Ferry quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Flea Hill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 618 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 26 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	49
Arson/incendiarism	26
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Natural	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Smoking	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Other causes	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	SILVER TRAIL (45)
3 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Florida Forest Service	KINGS FERRY II (45)
21 September 2003	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	TACOMA TRAIL FIRE 2003-07-1092
17 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	45 PROSPECT LANDING 2010-07-0486
8 August 2014	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-CAMDEN-004
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
11 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	45 MUSIC RD 2007-07-0473
3 July 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden 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
Greenville	0.7 miles	17
Germantown (historical)	1.9 miles	17
Clarks Bluff	4.0 miles	17
Colerain	4.3 miles	17
Silco	5.2 miles	17
Martin Glen	6.1 miles	17
Bullhead Bluff	6.4 miles	17
The Meadows	6.9 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331729. 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.