Fort Mudge, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It lies in ZIP code area 31503. The Survey maps it on the Fort Mudge quadrangle.

Fort Mudge within Brantley 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Fort Mudge quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
1994 USGS Fort Mudge quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

250 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Fort Mudge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 6,650 acres in total. 79 started naturally. 24 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
Natural	79
Debris and open burning	59
Railroad operations and maintenance	45
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Arson/incendiarism	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-WARE-005
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019WARE006
2 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WARE-014

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Schlatterville

Every fire recorded in Brantley 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
Schlatterville	7.5 miles	8
Hoboken	8.5 miles	8
Bachlott	10.3 miles	8
Hickox	11.7 miles	17
Big Oak	13.3 miles	17
Burton Terrace	14.3 miles	17
Nahunta	14.5 miles	17
Prosperity	16.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331755. 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.