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Hogan, 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.

Hogan 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.

Fires near this place

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Hogan between 1992 and 2017, burning about 962 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 34 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 burning73
Natural39
Equipment and vehicle use37
Arson/incendiarism34
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking5

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
8 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2006Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia 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
Hickory Bluff1.1 miles18
Satilla Shores1.4 miles18
Spring Bluff2.9 miles18
Ella Park (historical)3.3 miles18
Lampadocia (historical)5.9 miles18
Piney Bluff6.4 miles18
Dover Bluff6.7 miles18
Red Bluff7.5 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 325731. 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.