Hancock Landing, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Greens Cut census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30830. The Survey maps it on the Shell Bluff Landing quadrangle.

Hancock Landing within Burke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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 Greens Cut quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Greens Cut quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Shell Bluff Landing quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

191 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 191 fires within 5 miles of Hancock Landing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,176 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 60 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	83
Arson/incendiarism	60
Natural	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2018	Debris and open burning	4.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019BURKE006
6 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	BRAKE FIRE
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BURKE-007
29 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	6.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	not named
19 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BURKE-009
16 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	CROSSTIE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burke 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
Telfair Woods	5.5 miles	16
Shell Bluff Landing	5.6 miles	17
Shell Bluff	7.1 miles	16
Girard	8.7 miles	17
Alexander	11.2 miles	16
Bill Davis (historical)	11.5 miles	15
Old Church	12.1 miles	16
Sardis	12.7 miles	15

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 Q122566954

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 356156. 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.