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Macville, 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. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Macville within Lowndes County

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.

Fires near this place

382 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 382 fires within 5 miles of Macville (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,024 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 50 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 burning196
Arson/incendiarism50
Railroad operations and maintenance41
Equipment and vehicle use31
Smoking28
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony4

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
9 September 2010Debris and open burning4.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-LOWNDES-006
8 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2020Debris and open burning6.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021LOWNDES001
5 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-LOWNDES-015

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Jackson1.7 miles9
Lakeview Heights1.9 miles9
Prescott1.9 miles9
Little Miami2.0 miles9
West Valdosta2.3 miles9
Dees (historical)2.4 miles9
Forresthill Estates2.5 miles9
Lincoln Park2.8 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 346296. 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.