Hawkins Crossroads, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Woodland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31836. It stands on Mahone Branch. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle.

Hawkins Crossroads within Talbot County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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.

1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1934 USGS Warm Springs quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1936 USGS Warm Springs quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Manchester quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

242 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 242 fires within 5 miles of Hawkins Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,110 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 40 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	130
Arson/incendiarism	40
Railroad operations and maintenance	32
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	5
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-TALBOT-001
6 September 2009	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TALBOT012
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TALBOT-009
3 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021TALBOT001
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talbot 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
Greens Mill	1.9 miles	22
Belleview	2.8 miles	22
Sardis	2.9 miles	22
Woodland	3.0 miles	22
Beall	3.3 miles	16
Tax Crossroads	3.5 miles	22
Oak Mountain Spring (historical)	4.4 miles	22
Flint Hill	4.6 miles	22

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 Q122561055

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 326325. 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.