Lincoln Park, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Valdosta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31601. The Survey maps it on the Valdosta quadrangle.

Lincoln Park within Lowndes County

On record in Lincoln Park

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 5 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Southside Historic Districtlisted 2007 · 0.6 miles away
First Presbyterian Churchlisted 1987 · 0.6 miles away
Dasher High Schoollisted 1985 · 0.7 miles away
East End Historic Districtlisted 2005 · 0.9 miles away
Valdosta Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1983 · 1.0 miles away

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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

449 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 449 fires within 5 miles of Lincoln Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 975 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 73 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	216
Arson/incendiarism	73
Railroad operations and maintenance	36
Equipment and vehicle use	33
Smoking	31
Misuse of fire by a minor	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	5

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 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2018	Natural	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019LOWNDES003
22 September 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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
Woodgate	0.4 miles	9
Forresthill Estates	0.6 miles	9
Valdosta	0.9 miles	9
Prescott	1.0 miles	9
Little Miami	1.0 miles	9
Jackson	1.1 miles	9
Forrest Place	1.2 miles	9
Charter Oaks	1.8 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 346286. 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.