Glen Alta, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Buena Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31803. The Survey maps it on the Glen Alta quadrangle.

Glen Alta within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1949 USGS Glen Alta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Buena Vista quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Buena Vista quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Glen Alta quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

214 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Glen Alta between 1992 and 2020, burning about 933 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 48 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	100
Arson/incendiarism	48
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Smoking	13
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	3

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
7 September 2005	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-CHATTAHOOCHEE-001
3 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021MARION004
3 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021MARION003
3 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021MARION002
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MARION-015
21 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2001	Debris and open burning	4.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-CHATTAHOOCHEE-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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
Zellobee	1.8 miles	11
Union	3.0 miles	13
Berginville	3.6 miles	11
Pineville	3.9 miles	11
Elmview	4.7 miles	11
Brantley	6.4 miles	11
Buena Vista	7.2 miles	11
Hoggs (historical)	8.6 miles	8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122547897

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356033. 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.