Fort Screven, Georgia

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.

• Fort Screven Historic Districtlisted 1982 · 0.4 miles away
• Savannah Beach Town Hall and Auditoriumlisted 2022 · 0.9 miles away

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.

• 1920 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
• 1945 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1955 USGS Savannah Beach North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
• 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1978 USGS Tybee Island North quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Fort Screven between 1995 and 2012, burning about 27 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Lazaretto (historical)
• Savannah Beach
• Tybee Island
• River Oaks
• Wilmington Island
• Woodridge Estates

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Fort Screven: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Chatham County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

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.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355880. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.