McGriff, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cochran census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31014. It stands on Evergreen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Westlake quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

McGriff within Bleckley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 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.

1956 USGS Cochran quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Westlake quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

297 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of McGriff (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 976 acres in total. 7 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	213
Equipment and vehicle use	26
Smoking	16
Arson/incendiarism	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BLECKLEY-014
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bleckley 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
Coley	1.5 miles	10
Porter	1.6 miles	10
Royal	2.1 miles	10
Ainslie (historical)	3.1 miles	10
Paulk	3.3 miles	10
Five Points	4.0 miles	10
Cochran	4.5 miles	10
Cary	8.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334616. 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.