Garnersville, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Gaines census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39867. It lies near Johnny Moore Hill. The Survey maps it on the Hatcher quadrangle.

Garnersville within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Hatcher quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Troy quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of Garnersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,164 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 5 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	58
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
4 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CLAY-004
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CLAY-001
12 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2006	Natural	476 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay 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
Moores Crossroads	1.0 miles	7
Watson Crossroads	1.8 miles	7
Cotton Hill	2.3 miles	7
Days Crossroads	3.1 miles	7
Ricks Place	5.3 miles	7
Bethel	5.4 miles	7
Pecan	7.7 miles	7
Jones Crossing	7.8 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331795. 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.