Gertrude, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Midville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30441. It stands on Clear Spring Creek. The Survey maps it on the Colemans Lake quadrangle.

Gertrude within Burke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Colemans Lake quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Gertrude between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,310 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 30 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	60
Arson/incendiarism	30
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Natural	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020EMANUEL010
21 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-EMANUEL-015
15 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-JEFFERSON-025
10 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-EMANUEL-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burke 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
Number Ten (historical)	0.9 miles	7
Midville	3.7 miles	8
Magruder	6.0 miles	7
Scotts Corner	7.4 miles	7
Rosier	9.6 miles	7
Vidette	13.6 miles	16
Bellevue	15.8 miles	8
Drone	16.3 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326300. 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.