Lands End, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the St. Marys census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31558. It sits by Millers Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Saint Marys quadrangle.

Lands End within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

15 surveys from 23 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.

1918 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500
1919 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1919 USGS St. Marys quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:24000
1958 USGS St. Marys quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1979 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS St. Marys quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS St Marys quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS St. Marys quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Lands End between 1992 and 2020, burning about 198 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 41 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
Arson/incendiarism	41
Natural	30
Misuse of fire by a minor	30
Debris and open burning	28
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
3 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-042
3 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-043
29 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CAMDEN-009
9 August 1992	Natural	10.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Cumberland Island National Seashore	WELL HOUSE
31 August 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Cumberland Island National Seashore	GREYFIELD

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden 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
Cypress Lake Estates	0.5 miles	23
Plantation Oaks	0.9 miles	18
Peter Point Oaks	1.1 miles	18
River Oaks	1.2 miles	18
Highland Oaks	1.3 miles	18
North River Oaks	1.3 miles	18
Saint Marys	1.5 miles	23
North River Marshes	1.8 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671376. 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.