Lancaster, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the North Marion census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31801. It stands on Fort Perry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Geneva quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lancaster within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Geneva quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

396 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 396 fires within 5 miles of Lancaster (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,207 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 53 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	213
Arson/incendiarism	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Natural	27
Smoking	25
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Recreation and ceremony	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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 1997	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	6.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MARION-010
21 September 2012	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-TALBOT-006
20 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion 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
Oakland	3.4 miles	11
Juniper	4.5 miles	15
Five Points	5.6 miles	8
Blueville	6.3 miles	8
Brantley	9.5 miles	11
Tazewell	9.7 miles	8
Union	12.2 miles	13
Buena Vista	12.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 344105. 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.