Lax, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It lies in ZIP code area 31650. The Survey maps it on the Lax quadrangle.

Lax within Irwin 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Lax quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Lax between 1992 and 2020, burning about 522 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 18 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	101
Arson/incendiarism	18
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	9
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BERRIEN015
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	8.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Irwin 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
Riverbend	7.6 miles	9
Holt	8.6 miles	7
Ocilla	10.8 miles	8
Wray	10.9 miles	7
Osierfield	13.4 miles	8
Pinetta	15.0 miles	8
Mystic	15.3 miles	8
Irwinville	18.4 miles	8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Lax	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q12893406	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332192. 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.