Hickory Bluff, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Woodbine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31565. It lies near Hogans Island. The Survey maps it on the Dover Bluff quadrangle.

Hickory Bluff within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1918 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Dover Bluff quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Dover Bluff quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Dover Bluff quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

218 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 218 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Bluff between 1992 and 2017, burning about 854 acres in total. 44 started naturally. 35 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	61
Natural	44
Equipment and vehicle use	39
Arson/incendiarism	35
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6

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 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2006	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Hogan	1.1 miles	18
Ella Park (historical)	2.2 miles	18
Satilla Shores	2.3 miles	18
Spring Bluff	3.3 miles	18
Lampadocia (historical)	4.9 miles	18
Piney Bluff	5.3 miles	18
Dover Bluff	5.7 miles	18
Red Bluff	7.2 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331961. 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.