Greenwood, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Branchville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31730. The Survey maps it on the Branchville quadrangle. It stands 151 feet above sea level.

Greenwood within Mitchell 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Branchville quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Greenwood between 1992 and 2019, burning about 684 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 19 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	109
Arson/incendiarism	19
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	6
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-MITCHELL-011
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MITCHELL-012
22 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	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 Mitchell 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
Hopeful	3.5 miles	9
Branchville	3.5 miles	8
Camilla	7.2 miles	9
Petty (historical)	9.2 miles	9
Pelham	11.1 miles	9
Adelaide	11.2 miles	10
Flint	11.8 miles	10
Rogerville	12.4 miles	8

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.

Wikipedia article on Greenwood	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4846145	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 326310. 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.