Hickory Woods, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Warner Robins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31005. It stands on Bay Gall Creek. The Survey maps it on the Warner Robins SE quadrangle.

Hickory Woods within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1956 USGS Warner Robins quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Warner Robins SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

325 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 325 fires within 5 miles of Hickory Woods between 1992 and 2019, burning about 867 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 50 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	127
Misuse of fire by a minor	73
Arson/incendiarism	50
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Smoking	15
Recreation and ceremony	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HOUSTON-009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston 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
Windsor Forest	0.7 miles	11
Kings Crossing	0.7 miles	11
Idlewood Acres	0.9 miles	12
Peachtree Estates	1.0 miles	12
Creekside	1.0 miles	11
South Oaks	1.0 miles	12
Elmdale Estates	1.4 miles	12
Lashley	1.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671688. 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.