Martins, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hinesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31313. The Survey maps it on the Hinesville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Martins within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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 Hinesville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1944 USGS Hinesville quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Hinesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Hinesville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

453 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 453 fires within 5 miles of Martins (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,032 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 207 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
Arson/incendiarism	207
Debris and open burning	161
Misuse of fire by a minor	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020LIBERTY006
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019LIBERTY001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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
Tupelo Trail	1.1 miles	18
Doe Run Estates	1.1 miles	18
Flemington	1.2 miles	18
Cinder Hill	1.2 miles	18
Garden Acres	1.5 miles	18
Fraser Acres	1.5 miles	18
Sandy Run	1.7 miles	18
Martin Woods	1.9 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 357103. 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.