Halloca, Georgia

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Benning census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31905. It stands on Halloca Creek. The Survey maps it on the Cusseta quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Halloca within Chattahoochee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 25 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.

1908 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1929 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:48000
1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1949 USGS Cusseta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Cusseta quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Halloca (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 478 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 20 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	44
Railroad operations and maintenance	35
Arson/incendiarism	20
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
4 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	6.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020CHATTAHOOCHEE001
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 July 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATTAHOOCHEE-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chattahoochee 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
Central Springs	2.1 miles	25
Heineburg Village (historical)	2.5 miles	25
Cusseta	3.0 miles	25
Christopher	3.2 miles	13
Ochillee	4.5 miles	25
Ida Vesper	5.1 miles	13
Manta	5.7 miles	13
Gobblers Hill	5.7 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 351027. 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.