King City, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the St. Simons census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31522. It stands on King Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brunswick East quadrangle.

King City within Glynn County

On record in King City

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Strachan House Garagelisted 1997 · 0.2 miles away
St. Simons Lighthouse and Lighthouse Keepers' Buildinglisted 1972 · 0.6 miles away

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.

1945 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Brunswick East quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Brunswick East quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

18 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of King City between 1993 and 2015, burning about 14 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 July 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-GLYNN-005
28 June 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 June 1996	Natural	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 June 1996	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 May 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 May 1997	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glynn 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
Golf Retreat	0.2 miles	17
Saint Simons	0.6 miles	17
Demere Park	0.6 miles	17
Kings Terrace	0.6 miles	17
Mallory Park	0.8 miles	17
East End	1.4 miles	17
Druid Oaks	1.6 miles	17
Island Retreat	1.7 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671541. 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.