Germantown, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Kingsland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31548. It stands on Horsepen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kings Ferry quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Germantown within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1917 USGS Boulogne quadrangle1:62500
1919 USGS Boulogne quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Kings Ferry quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Germantown (historical) between 1992 and 2017, burning about 646 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 28 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	55
Arson/incendiarism	28
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Natural	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Smoking	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Other causes	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 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
11 August 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	45 MUSIC RD 2007-07-0473
3 July 1998	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-002
2 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-016
17 July 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-015

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden 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
Greenville	1.7 miles	17
Flea Hill	1.9 miles	17
Clarks Bluff	2.2 miles	17
Martin Glen	4.2 miles	17
The Meadows	5.2 miles	17
Fawnwood	5.3 miles	17
Wolfbay	5.4 miles	17
Woodhaven	5.5 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671348. 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.