Lower Sansavilla, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Jesup census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31546. It sits by Sansavilla Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Everett quadrangle.

Lower Sansavilla within Wayne 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.

1918 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1920 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Everett quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Everett quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

186 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Lower Sansavilla between 1993 and 2019, burning about 795 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 108 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
Arson/incendiarism	108
Natural	34
Debris and open burning	26
Smoking	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Recreation and ceremony	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
3 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	4.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-MCINTOSH-001
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2016	Natural	6.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WAYNE-013
22 August 1993	Natural	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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
Akin	4.0 miles	16
Mount Pleasant	4.5 miles	16
Paradise Park	5.1 miles	14
Pendarvis	5.8 miles	14
Gardi	8.5 miles	14
Odessa	10.0 miles	14
Manningtown	12.5 miles	16
Leake	13.7 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q122558657

The 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 332275. 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.