Floyd Grove, Georgia

26 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Columbus East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31907. It stands on Mill Branch. The Survey maps it on the Columbus quadrangle.

Floyd Grove within Muscogee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 26 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.

1908 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1929 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:48000
1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000
1999 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Floyd Grove between 1992 and 2019, burning about 200 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 21 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
Arson/incendiarism	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Debris and open burning	9
Smoking	4
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MUSCOGEE-002
3 September 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	9.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MUSCOGEE-001
22 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MUSCOGEE-001
29 August 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2000	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-MUSCOGEE-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muscogee 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
Wellington	0.2 miles	26
Forestdale	0.3 miles	26
Valley Hills	0.3 miles	26
Franklin Acres	0.4 miles	26
Regency Park	0.4 miles	26
Wesley Woods	0.5 miles	26
Branton Woods	0.6 miles	26
East Lakes	0.6 miles	26

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 Q122543882

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 357381. 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.