Madray Springs, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Odum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31545. The Survey maps it on the Jesup NW quadrangle.

Madray Springs within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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 Jesup quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Jesup NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

312 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 312 fires within 5 miles of Madray Springs between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,415 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 39 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	197
Arson/incendiarism	39
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Natural	19
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WAYNE-019
29 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WAYNE-018
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WAYNE-017
24 September 1996	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2006	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	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
Piney Grove	2.1 miles	8
Odum	5.4 miles	8
Burnett	5.6 miles	14
Tetlow	6.2 miles	8
Redland	6.6 miles	14
Brentwood	7.6 miles	8
Drawdy	8.1 miles	14
Doctortown	9.7 miles	15

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 Q122572503

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 317596. 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.