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Goshen Villa, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Rincon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31326. It stands on Willowpeg Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rincon quadrangle.

Goshen Villa within Effingham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

Fires near this place

338 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 338 fires within 5 miles of Goshen Villa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,128 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 97 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 burning156
Arson/incendiarism97
Misuse of fire by a minor28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Natural11
Equipment and vehicle use8
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking1

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
7 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2008Arson/incendiarism78 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-EFFINGHAM-002
20 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-EFFINGHAM-011
16 September 2000Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-EFFINGHAM-017
15 September 2008Arson/incendiarism4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Effingham 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
Silverwood Plantation0.5 miles16
Willowpeg1.5 miles16
Exley1.6 miles16
Coldbrook2.5 miles16
Rincon2.9 miles16
Blandford3.3 miles16
Rahns5.4 miles16
Birds5.8 miles16

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 Q122595346The 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 350228. 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.