Fletcherville, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Thomasville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31792. The Survey maps it on the Thomasville quadrangle.

Fletcherville within Thomas County

On record in Fletcherville

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 12 of 24 shown

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

Fletcherville Historic Districtlisted 1985 · 0.0 miles away
Wright Houselisted 1970 · 0.0 miles away
Thomasville Depotlisted 1988 · 0.2 miles away
Gordon Avenue Apartmentslisted 1983 · 0.3 miles away
Thomasville Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1984 · 0.4 miles away
Paradise Park Historic Districtlisted 1984 · 0.5 miles away
Judge Henry William and Francesca Hopkins Houselisted 2013 · 0.5 miles away
Ephraim Ponder Houselisted 1970 · 0.5 miles away
Thomas County Courthouselisted 1970 · 0.5 miles away
Park Frontlisted 1970 · 0.6 miles away
Hardy Bryan Houselisted 1970 · 0.6 miles away
Dr. David Brandon Houselisted 1970 · 0.6 miles away

Every listing in Thomas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Thomasville quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Thomasville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

224 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Fletcherville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 960 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 36 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	142
Arson/incendiarism	36
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	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
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-THOMAS-006
10 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 1993	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 Thomas 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
Thomasville	0.4 miles	8
Theodore Heights	0.5 miles	8
McLoughlin Heights	0.8 miles	8
Dewey City	1.0 miles	8
Homestead Park	1.1 miles	8
Booker Heights	1.2 miles	8
Pebble Hill	2.5 miles	12
Beverly (historical)	3.5 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 343724. 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.