Grubb, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cuthbert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39840. It stands on Yankee Branch. The Survey maps it on the Carnegie quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Grubb within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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
1973 USGS Carnegie quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Grubb (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 926 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 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	117
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Natural	6
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
23 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2019	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020RANDOLPH004
12 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020RANDOLPH003
26 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-RANDOLPH-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph 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
Shivers Mill	1.8 miles	7
Carnegie	2.0 miles	7
Bass Store	2.7 miles	7
Goffs Mill	4.7 miles	7
Blackburns Store (historical)	6.0 miles	7
Coleman	6.2 miles	7
Coles	6.5 miles	7
Cuthbert	7.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 344739. 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.