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Jefferson, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Woodbine census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31569. The Survey maps it on the Jerusalem quadrangle.

Jefferson within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Jefferson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,676 acres in total. 29 started naturally. 29 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 burning83
Arson/incendiarism29
Natural29
Equipment and vehicle use14
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Natural6.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Natural40 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burning7.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CAMDEN-010
28 September 2011Natural175 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-CAMDEN-010
27 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-SCREVEN-009
8 August 1999Natural30 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jefferson in 1 storm report in 2011: 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2011Thunderstorm WindJefferson-A field dispatcher reported trees down. Report from Georgia Emergency Management Situation report #4. The time and location of the event was based on radar imagery.

Every storm 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
Hopewell2.4 miles17
Scarlet2.6 miles17
Plantation Point3.0 miles18
Jerusalem3.1 miles17
Refuge (historical)3.6 miles18
Woodbine3.6 miles18
Tarboro3.6 miles17
Tompkins3.8 miles17

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.

Wikipedia article on JeffersonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q60789298The 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 332093. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.