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Kewanee Farms, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Byron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31008. The Survey maps it on the Warner Robins NW quadrangle.

Kewanee Farms within Peach 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.

Fires near this place

420 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 420 fires within 5 miles of Kewanee Farms between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,084 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 62 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 burning197
Arson/incendiarism62
Misuse of fire by a minor58
Equipment and vehicle use33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural18
Smoking14
Recreation and ceremony12
Railroad operations and maintenance5

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
6 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2016Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CRAWFORD-003
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-PEACH-011
30 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1995Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-PEACH-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Peach County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kewanee Farms: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
J&J Lumber Co. QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Powersville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Peach 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
Alpine Heights1.8 miles11
Byron1.9 miles11
Echeconnee2.0 miles12
Hidden Forest2.2 miles11
Powersville5.7 miles10
Lakeview6.6 miles12
Ohio7.6 miles10
Bryn Mawr8.4 miles10

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 Q122595178The 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 343148. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.