Groveland Estates, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Bridgeboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31705. The Survey maps it on the Bridgeboro quadrangle.

Groveland Estates within Worth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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 Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Doerun quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Bridgeboro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

313 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Groveland Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,324 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 21 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	195
Railroad operations and maintenance	37
Arson/incendiarism	21
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	5

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 2010	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MITCHELL-005
7 September 1999	Natural	8.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-MITCHELL-018
3 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-DOUGHERTY-001
3 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WORTH-009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth 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
Gintown (historical)	1.2 miles	10
Crestwood	1.4 miles	10
Indian Cove (historical)	1.8 miles	10
Bridgeboro	3.4 miles	10
Parkerville	3.5 miles	10
Livingston	3.6 miles	10
Alfords	3.9 miles	10
Liberty Hill	4.4 miles	10

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 Q122564564

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 343294. 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.