Grubbs, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Savannah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31409. It stands on Salt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Garden City quadrangle.

Grubbs within Chatham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1942 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Garden City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Garden City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Savannah 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 Grubbs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 807 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 26 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	45
Arson/incendiarism	26
Railroad operations and maintenance	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Recreation and ceremony	13
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	5
Natural	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
30 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-CHATHAM-003
31 August 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATHAM-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham 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
Forest River Farms	1.4 miles	17
Williamsburg Manor	2.1 miles	17
Village Green	2.1 miles	17
Silk Hope	2.3 miles	15
Lamarville	2.4 miles	15
Windward	2.5 miles	17
Leedsgate	2.5 miles	17
Tranquilla Woods	2.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331883. 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.