Kirkland, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Denton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31539. The Survey maps it on the Snipesville quadrangle.

Kirkland within Jeff Davis County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Snipesville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

313 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Kirkland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,698 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 30 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	193
Arson/incendiarism	30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Natural	21
Smoking	13
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2020	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021JEFF DAVIS008
4 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-JEFF DAVIS-009
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JEFF DAVIS023
30 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jeff Davis County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Kirkland: 1 occurrence. None of them 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Alluvium

Every working recorded in Jeff Davis County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirkland in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Kirkland	-	A tree was blown down across Burkett's Ferry Road between Hazelhurst and Snipesville.
February 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Kirkland	-	Trees were blown down in the Bullard Creek Wildlife Management Area along the Altamaha River. The time of the damage was based on radar.

Every storm recorded in Jeff Davis 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
Bingham (historical)	1.4 miles	8
Snipesville	2.6 miles	8
Paceville (historical)	3.6 miles	8
Goldsmith (historical)	4.6 miles	8
Brooker	5.4 miles	8
Roper	6.0 miles	8
Denton	6.4 miles	8
Ellis (historical)	8.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326355. 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.

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.