Habersham, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Millen census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30442. The Survey maps it on the Perkins quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Habersham within Jenkins County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1920 USGS Millen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Millen quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Millen 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 Perkins quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

197 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of Habersham (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,283 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 45 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	109
Arson/incendiarism	45
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Natural	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-JENKINS-005
29 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-JENKINS-003
19 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019BURKE009
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jenkins 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
Perkins	4.0 miles	15
Lawton	5.6 miles	15
Millen	9.9 miles	15
South Millen (historical)	10.6 miles	15
Birdsville	11.1 miles	7
Cushingville (historical)	11.1 miles	7
Paramore Hill	12.6 miles	15
Bennetts Landing	12.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 342983. 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.