Glencoe, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Woodbine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31565. It lies near Gowrie Island. The Survey maps it on the Bladen quadrangle.

Glencoe within Camden 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Glencoe between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,698 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 29 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	54
Arson/incendiarism	29
Natural	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
24 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-GLYNN-002
1 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2006	Natural	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2008	Natural	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2007	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 1993	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 August 2006	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CAMDEN-010

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
Waverly	2.8 miles	18
Spring Bluff	5.4 miles	18
Red Bluff	6.0 miles	18
White Oak	7.2 miles	18
Hogan	8.2 miles	18
Hickory Bluff	8.7 miles	18
Satilla Shores	8.9 miles	18
Tarboro	9.2 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331815. 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.