Halfmoon Landing, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Midway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31320. It lies near Cattle Hammock. The Survey maps it on the Seabrook quadrangle.

Halfmoon Landing within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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 Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Seabrook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Seabrook quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Halfmoon Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 589 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 8 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	43
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
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
5 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	21 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-LIBERTY-007
22 August 1996	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 August 1995	Natural	under an acre	Harris Neck National Wildlife Refuge	GILJE 2
5 July 2019	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020LIBERTY002
26 July 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021LIBERTY002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Halfmoon Landing: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Albany Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

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
Drum Point Landing	1.1 miles	15
Dunham (historical)	2.7 miles	15
Seabrook	4.0 miles	15
Sunbury	4.7 miles	17
Retreat	7.2 miles	14
Riceboro	8.6 miles	14
Dorchester	9.4 miles	16
Lecount	9.7 miles	14

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 Q122567783

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 331896. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.