Kicklighter, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Glennville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30427. The Survey maps it on the Glennville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Kicklighter within Tattnall 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.

1920 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

294 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 294 fires within 5 miles of Kicklighter (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 757 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 38 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	196
Arson/incendiarism	38
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Smoking	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	5

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
8 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TATTNALL-010
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TATTNALL-011
7 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-TATTNALL-011
5 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TATTNALL005
4 September 2014	Debris and open burning	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-TATTNALL-007
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TATTNALL013
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TATTNALL012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tattnall 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
Glennville	1.4 miles	17
Lynn	1.7 miles	17
Birdford (historical)	3.2 miles	17
Mendes	3.6 miles	17
Purvis (historical)	3.8 miles	19
Tison	4.1 miles	8
Alton (historical)	4.2 miles	17
Five Points	5.1 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 347420. 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.