Imperial, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eatonton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31024. The Survey maps it on the Eatonton quadrangle.

Imperial within Putnam 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Eatonton quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

189 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 189 fires within 5 miles of Imperial between 1992 and 2020, burning about 695 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 22 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	90
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	8
Smoking	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-PUTNAM-006
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-PUTNAM-006
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	2.6 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	not named
25 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.0 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	TUGGLE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam 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
Hunts	0.3 miles	11
Eatonton	1.5 miles	11
Warfield	3.3 miles	11
Linchburg	3.3 miles	11
The Glades (historical)	4.1 miles	10
Reids Crossroads	4.6 miles	10
Meda	4.8 miles	10
Willard	4.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332056. 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.