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Limerick, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Midway census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31320. It stands on Mount Hope Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dorchester quadrangle.

Limerick within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

607 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 607 fires within 5 miles of Limerick between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,100 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 184 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 burning269
Arson/incendiarism184
Equipment and vehicle use61
Missing data/not specified/undetermined37
Misuse of fire by a minor22
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural9
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Smoking5

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
7 September 1994Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020LIBERTY007
26 September 1996Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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 Limerick: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Molybdenum, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cumberland Island DepositMolybdenum, TitaniumProspectSurface

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
Dorchester3.0 miles16
Midway3.2 miles16
Fleming3.7 miles16
Screven Fork7.1 miles16
Seabrook7.1 miles15
Sunbury7.3 miles17
McIntosh7.3 miles18
Crossroads7.4 miles14

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.

Wikipedia article on LimerickAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65082028The 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 316874. 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.