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Indian Creek, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the West Dougherty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31721. The Survey maps it on the Pretoria quadrangle.

Indian Creek within Dougherty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

156 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 156 fires within 5 miles of Indian Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 503 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 20 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 burning85
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
7 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-DOUGHERTY-003
6 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1997Debris and open burning11 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-LEE-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dougherty 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
Cedar Lake0.2 miles10
Brookhollow0.3 miles10
Lockett Crossing0.8 miles10
Winterwood1.2 miles13
Springfield1.5 miles10
Southwind1.5 miles13
Greenbrier1.8 miles13
Gillionville Forest1.8 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671142. 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.