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Golf Retreat, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the St. Simons census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31522. It stands on King Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brunswick East quadrangle.

Golf Retreat within Glynn County

On record in Golf Retreat

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

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.

Fires near this place

19 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Golf Retreat between 1993 and 2015, burning about 15 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
3 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 July 2000Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-GLYNN-005
28 June 2006Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 June 1996Natural1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 June 1996Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 May 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 May 1997Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glynn 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
King City0.2 miles17
Kings Terrace0.4 miles17
Demere Park0.5 miles17
Saint Simons0.6 miles17
Mallory Park0.7 miles17
East End1.4 miles17
Druid Oaks1.5 miles17
Island Retreat1.5 miles17

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 Q122549221The 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 1671522. 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.