Liberty, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the White Plains census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30678. The Survey maps it on the Liberty quadrangle.

Liberty within Greene County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Liberty quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Liberty between 1992 and 2019, burning about 467 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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	43
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
9 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-GREENE-011
30 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2003	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-GREENE-002
14 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	34 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2005	Debris and open burning	4.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-GREENE-006
8 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene 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
Ruth (historical)	1.8 miles	11
Comfort (historical)	2.4 miles	11
Flat Rock (historical)	3.0 miles	11
Mosquito Crossing	3.8 miles	11
Veazey	5.7 miles	11
Swaggy Valley	5.8 miles	11
White Plains	6.4 miles	11
Siloam	8.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332210. 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.