Golden Isles, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Tybee Island-Wilmington Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31410. It lies near Talahi Island. The Survey maps it on the Fort Pulaski quadrangle.

Golden Isles within Chatham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1920 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Fort Pulaski quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Fort Pulaski quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

33 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Golden Isles between 1992 and 2017, burning about 115 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 July 1994	Natural	1.5 acres	Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge	TRUST
24 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Fort Pulaski National Monument	TALLEY
20 July 2009	Natural	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 July 1993	Recreation and ceremony	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Golden Isles: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Savannah Deposit	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect	1966

Every working recorded in Chatham 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
Harbor Creek	0.2 miles	17
River Oaks	0.3 miles	17
Woodridge Estates	1.4 miles	17
Wilmington Island	1.5 miles	17
Turners Rock	2.1 miles	17
Wilmington Park	2.4 miles	15
Whitemarsh Island	2.6 miles	17
Riverside	2.7 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1694535. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.