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Gross Still, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Kingsland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31548. It stands on Little Catfish Creek. The Survey maps it on the Kingsland quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Gross Still within Camden County

On record in Gross Still

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

366 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 366 fires within 5 miles of Gross Still (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 896 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 99 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 burning110
Arson/incendiarism99
Misuse of fire by a minor57
Natural30
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Recreation and ceremony13
Smoking11
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CAMDEN-045
17 September 1997Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2010Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CAMDEN-010
6 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2019Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CAMDEN003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden 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
Forest Ridge0.5 miles17
Vacuna (historical)0.6 miles17
Terra Haute0.6 miles17
Creekwood0.7 miles17
Greentree0.9 miles17
Kingsland0.9 miles17
Wolfbay1.3 miles17
Catfish Acres1.3 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334828. 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.