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Harbor Pines, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the St. Marys census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31558. It stands on Sweetwater Branch. The Survey maps it on the Harrietts Bluff quadrangle.

Harbor Pines within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

222 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 222 fires within 5 miles of Harbor Pines between 1992 and 2020, burning about 419 acres in total. 31 started naturally. 81 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
Arson/incendiarism81
Debris and open burning41
Misuse of fire by a minor40
Natural31
Equipment and vehicle use8
Smoking8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
3 September 2000Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CAMDEN-042
3 September 2000Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CAMDEN-043
29 September 2016Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CAMDEN-009
17 September 1997Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 1992Natural10.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2014Naturalunder an acreCumberland Island National SeashoreWELL HOUSE
4 August 2006Debris and open burning15 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Admirals Walk0.3 miles18
Quail Hollow0.8 miles18
North River Marshes0.8 miles18
Sugar Mill Plantation1.5 miles18
River Oaks1.6 miles18
North River Oaks1.6 miles18
Highland Oaks1.7 miles18
Peter Point Oaks1.8 miles18

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 Q122558609The 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 1671354. 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.