Leedsgate, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Savannah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31406. The Survey maps it on the Burroughs quadrangle.

Leedsgate 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.

1944 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Burroughs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Burroughs quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

126 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 126 fires within 5 miles of Leedsgate between 1992 and 2017, burning about 703 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 25 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	40
Arson/incendiarism	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	2

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
2 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-CHATHAM-003
3 August 2016	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATHAM-002
26 July 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 July 2000	Recreation and ceremony	6.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CHATHAM-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Wilshire	0.5 miles	17
Williamsburg Manor	0.6 miles	17
White Bluff	0.7 miles	17
Oakhurst	0.7 miles	15
Tranquilla Woods	0.8 miles	17
Chippewa Terrace	1.2 miles	15
Windsor Forest	1.2 miles	17
Rivers End	1.3 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 Q122543655

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 1694581. 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.