Grimshaw, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Brooklet census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30461. The Survey maps it on the Brooklet quadrangle.

Grimshaw within Bulloch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1921 USGS Brooklet quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Brooklet 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 Brooklet quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Grimshaw between 1992 and 2020, burning about 535 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 14 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	111
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Arson/incendiarism	14
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	8
Smoking	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 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BULLOCH-012
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1996	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1993	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BULLOCH-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bulloch 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
Pretoria	1.8 miles	14
Brooklet	2.3 miles	14
Grove Lakes South	2.6 miles	14
Mill Creek (historical)	2.8 miles	14
Grove Lakes	2.9 miles	14
Colonial Heights	3.3 miles	14
Merrywood	3.3 miles	14
Lynn Haven Estates	3.4 miles	17

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 Q122547982

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 326313. 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.