Kennedy, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Morven census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31638. The Survey maps it on the Pebble Hill quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Kennedy within Brooks County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Quitman quadrangle1:62500
1975 USGS Pebble Hill quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Pebble Hill quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

491 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 491 fires within 5 miles of Kennedy (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,944 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 113 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	267
Arson/incendiarism	113
Equipment and vehicle use	50
Railroad operations and maintenance	36
Natural	10
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brooks 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
Morven	2.0 miles	7
Pebble Hill	3.1 miles	8
Tillman (historical)	3.6 miles	7
Spain	3.8 miles	8
Fodie	4.8 miles	8
Golden (historical)	5.2 miles	7
Barney	6.3 miles	9
Shiver	6.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 345559. 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.