Martin Glen, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Kingsland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31548. The Survey maps it on the Kingsland quadrangle.

Martin Glen within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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 Kingsland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Kingsland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1959 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1980 USGS Kingsland quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Fernandina Beach quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1988 USGS Jacksonville quadrangle1:250000
1993 USGS Kingsland quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

265 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 265 fires within 5 miles of Martin Glen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 710 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 61 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	83
Arson/incendiarism	61
Misuse of fire by a minor	42
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Natural	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	10
Smoking	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
5 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020CAMDEN003
30 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CAMDEN-040
21 August 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1992	Arson/incendiarism	25 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden 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
Fawnwood	1.1 miles	17
Terra Haute	1.9 miles	17
Catfish Acres	2.0 miles	17
Clarks Bluff	2.1 miles	17
Wolfbay	2.1 miles	17
Vacuna (historical)	2.1 miles	17
Creekwood	2.1 miles	17
The Meadows	2.2 miles	17

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 Q122598395

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 1671389. 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.