Garlington Heights Housing Project, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Waycross census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31503. The Survey maps it on the Waycross West quadrangle.

Garlington Heights Housing Project within Ware County

On record in Garlington Heights Housing Project

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 3 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

U.S. Post Office and Courthouselisted 1980 · 0.8 miles away
Phoenix Hotellisted 1986 · 0.9 miles away
Downtown Waycross Historic Districtlisted 1992 · 1.0 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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 Waycross West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

714 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 714 fires within 5 miles of Garlington Heights Housing Project between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,430 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 106 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	390
Arson/incendiarism	106
Railroad operations and maintenance	65
Misuse of fire by a minor	40
Natural	35
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Recreation and ceremony	21
Smoking	5

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 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	41 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-PIERCE-015
27 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ware County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Garlington Heights Housing Project: 3 producers, 2 past producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Mcneal Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Minchew Sand Co Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pafford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pafford Pit No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Alluvium

Every working recorded in Ware 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
Deenwood	1.1 miles	8
Waycross	1.2 miles	7
Winona Park	1.6 miles	8
Emerson Park	1.7 miles	8
Hebardville	2.4 miles	7
Sunnyside	2.8 miles	7
Wahoma	4.2 miles	8
Jamestown	4.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 357677. 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.