BlockMagnolia, Georgia
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Fargo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31630. The Survey maps it on the Midway quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
6 surveys from 7 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 Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
- 1968 USGS Midway quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Okefenokee Swamp quadrangle1:100000
- 1994 USGS Midway quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
92 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Magnolia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,259 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 11 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 | 42 |
| Natural | 35 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 2016 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-CLINCH-021 |
| 15 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 14 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 August 2011 | Natural | 7.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-CLINCH-007 |
| 21 August 2020 | Arson/incendiarism | 3.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2021CLINCH007 |
| 18 August 2020 | Natural | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2021CLINCH006 |
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.
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.
| Wikipedia article on Magnolia | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q65083024 | 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 345246. 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.