BlockForrest Place, 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 31601. The Survey maps it on the Valdosta quadrangle.
On record in Forrest Place
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 2 records
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
East End Historic Districtlisted 2005 · 0.7 miles away
First Presbyterian Churchlisted 1987 · 0.8 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 9 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
491 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 491 fires within 5 miles of Forrest Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 969 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 91 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 | 227 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 91 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 42 |
| Smoking | 34 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 33 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 29 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
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 |
| 8 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2008 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2003 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2003 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2018 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019LOWNDES003 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charter Oaks | 0.7 miles | 9 | |
| Bray (historical) | 1.0 miles | 9 | |
| Valdosta | 1.1 miles | 9 | |
| Lincoln Park | 1.2 miles | 9 | |
| Woodgate | 1.3 miles | 9 | |
| Lakeland Forest | 1.3 miles | 9 | |
| Forresthill Estates | 1.7 miles | 9 | |
| Joree Springs | 1.8 miles | 9 |
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 Q122548568 | 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 346252. 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.