Goldsborough, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Woodbine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31568. The Survey maps it on the Tarboro quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Goldsborough within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1917 USGS Nahunta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1918 USGS Nahunta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Tarboro quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Tarboro quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Tarboro quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Goldsborough (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 594 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 26 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	58
Natural	28
Arson/incendiarism	26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	1

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
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	7.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CAMDEN-010
29 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1997	Natural	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2011	Natural	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-CAMDEN-008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden 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
Rains Landing	3.3 miles	17
Tarboro	3.6 miles	17
Midriver	4.1 miles	17
Jerusalem	4.1 miles	17
Jefferson	6.3 miles	17
Burnt Fort	6.4 miles	17
Hopewell	7.2 miles	17
White Oak	7.3 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671350. 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.