Goloid, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It lies in ZIP code area 30467. The Survey maps it on the Sylvania South quadrangle.

Goloid within Screven County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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.

1918 USGS Oliver quadrangle1:62500
1920 USGS Oliver quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Millen quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Oliver quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Sylvania South quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

288 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 288 fires within 5 miles of Goloid between 1992 and 2020, burning about 953 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 29 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	173
Arson/incendiarism	29
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Smoking	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4

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 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-SCREVEN-020
29 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-SCREVEN-035

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Screven 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
Double Heads	3.1 miles	16
Altman	3.2 miles	16
Farmdale	3.3 miles	16
Green Hill	4.4 miles	16
Waters	4.4 miles	17
Sylvania	4.5 miles	17
Zeigler	5.2 miles	17
White Hill	5.3 miles	16

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 Q122563439

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 326304. 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.