Glenford, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Devereux census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31087. The Survey maps it on the Shoulderbone quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Glenford within Hancock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Shoulderbone quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

251 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Glenford (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 905 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 22 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	127
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Arson/incendiarism	22
Natural	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Smoking	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
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	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HANCOCK-003
24 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	3.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock 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
Sparta	3.3 miles	10
Devereux	3.3 miles	13
Sandy Run	5.4 miles	14
Howell Grove	5.4 miles	10
Zebulon	5.4 miles	13
Granite Hill	5.7 miles	10
Harpertown (historical)	6.1 miles	13
Shoulderbone	6.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 348205. 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.