Lecount, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Riceboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31323. The Survey maps it on the Riceboro quadrangle.

Lecount within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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 Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Sapelo River quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Riceboro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Riceboro quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

307 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 307 fires within 5 miles of Lecount between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,218 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 120 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	122
Arson/incendiarism	120
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Natural	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
30 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-MCINTOSH-020
24 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MCINTOSH-008
4 August 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-LIBERTY-005
3 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-LIBERTY-004
20 August 2002	Natural	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-SCREVEN-017

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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
Retreat	2.9 miles	14
Riceboro	4.1 miles	14
Crossroads	4.7 miles	14
Screven Fork	6.7 miles	16
Seabrook	8.2 miles	15
Dorchester	8.5 miles	16
Midway	8.8 miles	16
Dunham (historical)	9.5 miles	15

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.

Wikidata item Q122564321

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 326364. 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.