Goffs Mill, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cuthbert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39840. It stands on Goffs Mill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Martins Crossroads quadrangle.

Goffs Mill within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Martins Crossroads quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Goffs Mill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 779 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 14 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	92
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Arson/incendiarism	14
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	2

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 2016	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-RANDOLPH-002
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-RANDOLPH-004
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-RANDOLPH-003
7 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-RANDOLPH-003
25 September 2010	Natural	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-RANDOLPH-012
24 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-RANDOLPH-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph 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
Shivers Mill	3.1 miles	7
Martins Crossroads	3.1 miles	7
Pachitla	4.0 miles	7
Grubb (historical)	4.7 miles	7
Shellman	5.5 miles	7
Carnegie	6.2 miles	7
Aycock Mill	6.4 miles	7
Cuthbert	6.7 miles	7

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 Q122561801

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 331835. 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.