Idlewood Acres, Georgia

12 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 Howard Branch. The Survey maps it on the Warner Robins SW quadrangle.

Idlewood Acres within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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 SW quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

352 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 352 fires within 5 miles of Idlewood Acres between 1992 and 2019, burning about 966 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 51 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	143
Misuse of fire by a minor	79
Arson/incendiarism	51
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Smoking	16
Recreation and ceremony	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 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
19 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	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

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
South Oaks	0.4 miles	12
Peachtree Estates	0.4 miles	12
Turtle Creek	0.8 miles	12
Hickory Woods	0.9 miles	11
Windsor Forest	1.1 miles	11
Russell Glen	1.2 miles	12
Creekside	1.2 miles	11
Sonja Heights	1.3 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671702. 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.