Georgetown, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Thalmann census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31523. It stands on College Creek. The Survey maps it on the Bladen quadrangle.

Georgetown within Glynn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1918 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:24000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

212 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Georgetown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 997 acres in total. 38 started naturally. 34 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	63
Railroad operations and maintenance	42
Natural	38
Arson/incendiarism	34
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
3 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2006	Natural	6.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2006	Natural	5.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1998	Natural	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 1999	Natural	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glynn 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
Bethel (historical)	0.6 miles	18
Brookman	1.8 miles	18
Bladen	2.6 miles	18
Jamaica	2.9 miles	16
Union (historical)	3.6 miles	18
Leicht (historical)	4.2 miles	16
Hayner	4.4 miles	18
Blunt (historical)	4.7 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326299. 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.