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Liberty, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jakin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39823. It stands on Cedar Springs Branch. The Survey maps it on the Gordon quadrangle.

Liberty within Early 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.

Fires near this place

257 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 257 fires within 5 miles of Liberty between 1992 and 2020, burning about 959 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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
Railroad operations and maintenance106
Debris and open burning75
Equipment and vehicle use37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking7
Natural4
Misuse of fire by a minor3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
30 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019EARLY004
24 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160923-3
20 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Early County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Liberty: 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jackson Creek Limestone ProspectLimestone, GeneralProspect
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
UnnamedIronUnknown
Unnamed Iron DepositIronOccurrence
Unnamed Iron DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Early 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cedar Springs1.8 miles9
Howards Mill4.4 miles9
Saffold4.5 miles8
Sawhatchee7.2 miles9
Jones Crossroads7.2 miles9
Springfield (historical)7.3 miles9
Killarney7.5 miles9
Hilton7.6 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 345042. 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.