BlockLong Branch, Georgia
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cairo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39827. It stands on Gin Branch. The Survey maps it on the Cairo North quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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 Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1956 USGS Cairo quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Cairo North quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
413 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 413 fires within 5 miles of Long Branch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 953 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 29 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 | 288 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 29 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Smoking | 18 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020GRADY010 |
| 29 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | 2.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2013-GRADY-003 |
| 25 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020GRADY009 |
| 25 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020GRADY008 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cairo | 1.4 miles | 12 | |
| Brownlee | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Roddenberry | 3.2 miles | 12 | |
| Woodland | 3.4 miles | 12 | |
| Providence | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Midway | 5.1 miles | 12 | |
| Capel | 5.2 miles | 12 | |
| Pleasant Grove | 5.9 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 342493. 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.