Ford, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Thalmann census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31523. It lies near Long Island. The Survey maps it on the Thalmann quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Ford within Glynn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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.

1918 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1920 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Thalmann quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Thalmann quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Ford (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 499 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 49 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	54
Arson/incendiarism	49
Natural	24
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	2

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
5 September 1997	Natural	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2006	Natural	42 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2006	Natural	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1998	Natural	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glynn 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
Jenks (historical)	0.3 miles	16
Thalmann	2.6 miles	16
Lotts (historical)	2.9 miles	16
Blunt (historical)	3.3 miles	16
Belle Vista	3.6 miles	16
Everett	4.9 miles	16
Leicht (historical)	5.1 miles	16
Zuta	5.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334674. 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.