Manson, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Nahunta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31543. The Survey maps it on the Hortense quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Manson within Brantley 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 Hortense quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Hortense 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 Hortense quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

296 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 296 fires within 5 miles of Manson (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,164 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 68 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	132
Arson/incendiarism	68
Natural	37
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Recreation and ceremony	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	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
7 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BRANTLEY018
24 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	8.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WAYNE015
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BRANTLEY-011
21 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BRANTLEY-010
20 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brantley 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
Hortense	1.2 miles	14
Trudie	2.9 miles	14
Needmore	4.2 miles	14
Raybon	5.4 miles	14
Fendig	7.3 miles	15
Prosperity	9.2 miles	17
Burton Terrace	9.3 miles	17
Nahunta	9.4 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334793. 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.