Greenwood, Georgia

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the East Lanier census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31649. The Survey maps it on the Stockton quadrangle.

Greenwood within Lanier County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Stockton quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Okefenokee Swamp quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

266 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 266 fires within 5 miles of Greenwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,139 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 51 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	146
Arson/incendiarism	51
Natural	24
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-LANIER-007
3 August 2013	Natural	3.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-CLINCH-001
24 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019LOWNDES001
21 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2004	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 1999	Natural	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Stockton

Every fire recorded in Lanier County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenwood in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	-	Several trees were blown down in Lanier county.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Greenwood	-	Pecan trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Lanier 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
Stockton	1.5 miles	6
Lakeland	8.3 miles	8
Teeterville	14.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331869. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.