Iron Springs Crossroads, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Flovilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30233. The Survey maps it on the Jackson quadrangle.

Iron Springs Crossroads within Butts 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Jackson quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

250 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Iron Springs Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 766 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 16 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	141
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Railroad operations and maintenance	16
Smoking	16
Arson/incendiarism	16
Recreation and ceremony	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	7

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
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JASPER005
2 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	21 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019JASPER001
14 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butts 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
Bibb (historical)	1.5 miles	12
Flovilla	2.4 miles	12
Pepperton	2.7 miles	12
Stark	3.2 miles	12
Indian Springs	3.4 miles	14
Sandy	3.8 miles	14
Jackson	3.8 miles	12
McMichael Crossroads	4.9 miles	12

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122566884

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 345837. 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.