Lazaretto, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Tybee Island-Wilmington Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31328. It lies near Tybee Island. The Survey maps it on the Tybee Island North quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Lazaretto within Chatham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1920 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Bluffton quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Savannah Beach North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Beaufort quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Tybee Island North quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Lazaretto (historical) between 1995 and 2017, burning about 108 acres in total. 3 started naturally. None was 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	3

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
24 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Fort Pulaski National Monument	TALLEY
20 July 2009	Natural	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 May 1996	Recreation and ceremony	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 April 2000	Recreation and ceremony	68 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2000-CHATHAM-036
4 March 2017	Recreation and ceremony	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATHAM-009
16 October 2012	Natural	25 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-CHATHAM-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham 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 Lazaretto (historical): 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium. 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
	Savannah Beach Placer	Titanium	Occurrence	Beach Placer

Every working recorded in Chatham 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
Fort Screven	1.4 miles	17
Tybee Island	1.7 miles	17
Savannah Beach	1.9 miles	15
Woodridge Estates	4.9 miles	17
River Oaks	4.9 miles	17
Golden Isles	5.3 miles	17
Harbor Creek	5.4 miles	17
Wilmington Island	5.6 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1694578. 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.