Glyndale, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Brunswick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31520. It stands on Yellow Bluff Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brunswick West quadrangle.

Glyndale within Glynn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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 Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Brunswick West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Brunswick West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

280 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 280 fires within 5 miles of Glyndale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 576 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 87 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
Arson/incendiarism	87
Debris and open burning	78
Misuse of fire by a minor	36
Natural	28
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	4

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 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glynn 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
Ellis Point	0.4 miles	19
Glendale Gardens	0.5 miles	19
Glynn Heights	0.6 miles	19
Parade Rest	0.6 miles	19
Glenwood Estates	0.8 miles	19
Oak Bluff	0.8 miles	19
Dock Junction	0.9 miles	19
Clover Heights	0.9 miles	19

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 Q122592283

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 1671509. 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.