Goldsmith, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Denton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31539. It stands on Fox Branch. The Survey maps it on the Roper quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Goldsmith within Jeff Davis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Roper quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

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 Goldsmith (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,360 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 35 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	318
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Arson/incendiarism	35
Natural	25
Smoking	21
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Recreation and ceremony	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	14

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 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-JEFF DAVIS-016
8 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-JEFF DAVIS-008
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2020	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021JEFF DAVIS008
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JEFF DAVIS023
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jeff Davis 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 Goldsmith (historical): 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Unnamed Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Alluvium

Every working recorded in Jeff Davis 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
Roper	2.5 miles	8
Brooker	2.5 miles	8
Snipesville	4.1 miles	8
Denton	4.3 miles	8
Kirkland	4.6 miles	8
Bingham (historical)	5.3 miles	8
Satilla	5.9 miles	8
Quinn (historical)	6.8 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 335102. 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.