Maysville, Georgia

25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1892 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Evans census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30809. The Survey maps it on the Martinez quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Maysville within Columbia County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 25 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.

1892 USGS Mc Cormick quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1912 USGS Mc Cormick quadrangle1:125000
1920 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:48000
1921 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1941 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1942 USGS Clarks Hill quadrangle1:62500
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Martinez quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Maysville (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 296 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 38 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	70
Arson/incendiarism	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Misuse of fire by a minor	19
Natural	7
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-COLUMBIA-010
9 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-RICHMOND-016
26 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-COLUMBIA-004
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020COLUMBIA002
20 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-RICHMOND-023
2 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Maysville (historical): 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Augusta Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
	Barton Chaple Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Columbia 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
Holiday Park	0.5 miles	25
Briarwood	0.6 miles	25
Sweetbriar	0.6 miles	25
Bonaire Heights	0.7 miles	25
Woodland	0.7 miles	25
Jamaica Estates	0.8 miles	25
Casa Bella	0.8 miles	25
Shenandoah	0.8 miles	25

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 348912. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.