McLeods Mill, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Folkston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31537. It lies near Green Hammock. The Survey maps it on the Cravens Island quadrangle.

McLeods Mill within Charlton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Cravens Island quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Okefenokee Swamp quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Cravens Island quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of McLeods Mill between 1992 and 2016, burning about 346 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 16 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
Natural	24
Arson/incendiarism	16
Debris and open burning	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Equipment and vehicle use	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
3 September 2014	Natural	26 acres	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	HICKORY HAMMOCK
24 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WARE-012
2 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-CHARLTON-010
17 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	EO-3
12 August 2010	Arson/incendiarism	8.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WARE-007
9 July 1998	Natural	40 acres	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	GA-16
30 July 1992	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Every fire recorded in Charlton 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
Racepond	13.9 miles	8
Cypress Siding	14.5 miles	10
Mattox	16.5 miles	10
Silver Hill	16.7 miles	10
Uptonville	17.7 miles	10
Paxton	18.8 miles	11
Petersons (historical)	19.2 miles	10
Newell	19.5 miles	10

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 Q122591880

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 332358. 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.