Layton, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Folkston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31537. The Survey maps it on the Boulogne quadrangle.

Layton within Charlton County

On record in Layton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Charlton County Courthouselisted 1980 · 0.5 miles away
William Mizell Sr. Houselisted 1997 · 0.6 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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.

1917 USGS Boulogne quadrangle1:62500
1919 USGS Boulogne quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Boulogne quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

465 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 465 fires within 5 miles of Layton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,680 acres in total. 80 started naturally. 79 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	212
Natural	80
Arson/incendiarism	79
Equipment and vehicle use	38
Railroad operations and maintenance	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	6
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
7 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHARLTON-011
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.6 acres	Florida Forest Service	TRACY ROAD (45)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlton 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 Layton: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: REE, Titanium, Zirconium, Thorium. 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
	Folkston Concentrator	REE, Titanium, Zirconium, Thorium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Charlton 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
Pinehurst	0.7 miles	17
Folkston	0.7 miles	11
Camp Pinkney (historical)	1.2 miles	17
Oakdale	1.3 miles	11
Centerville (historical)	1.6 miles	17
Homeland	1.8 miles	11
Woodstock (historical)	2.4 miles	17
Ferry Landing	4.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 357770. 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.