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Godwinsville, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eastman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31023. The Survey maps it on the Eastman quadrangle.

Godwinsville within Dodge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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.

Photographs

5 photographs, 1937

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Home of turpentine workers near Godwinsville, Georgia
Home of turpentine workers near Godwinsville, Georgia
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1937. Library of Congress
Home of turpentine worker near Godwinsville, Georgia
Home of turpentine worker near Godwinsville, Georgia
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1937. Library of Congress
Turpentine camp. Godwinsville, Georgia
Turpentine camp. Godwinsville, Georgia
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1937. Library of Congress
Home of turpentine workers near Godwinsville, Georgia
Home of turpentine workers near Godwinsville, Georgia
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1937. Library of Congress
Home of turpentine workers near Godwinsville, Georgia
Home of turpentine workers near Godwinsville, Georgia
Lange, Dorothea, photographer, 1937. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

489 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 489 fires within 5 miles of Godwinsville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,308 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 91 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 burning281
Arson/incendiarism91
Equipment and vehicle use43
Natural23
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking6

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-DODGE-016
9 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021DODGE008
6 September 1993Natural3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DODGE-014
30 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Amoskeag (historical)2.8 miles9
Chauncey3.9 miles8
Lowery4.8 miles9
McCranie4.9 miles8
Pitts5.0 miles8
Eastman5.0 miles9
Ararat5.1 miles8
Five Points5.2 miles8

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 Q122547640The 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 326303. 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.