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Lakeland Forest, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Valdosta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31602. The Survey maps it on the Valdosta quadrangle.

Lakeland Forest within Lowndes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

482 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 482 fires within 5 miles of Lakeland Forest between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,000 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 102 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 burning226
Arson/incendiarism102
Equipment and vehicle use39
Smoking35
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural10
Recreation and ceremony8

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
9 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2018Natural5.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019LOWNDES003
20 September 2005Debris and open burning7.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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
Joree Springs0.5 miles9
Bray (historical)0.7 miles9
Charter Oaks0.7 miles9
South Ree Springs0.8 miles9
Forrestwood Estates0.9 miles9
Highland Heights1.1 miles9
Eastwind1.1 miles9
Forrest Place1.3 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 346280. 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.