McTier, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Baxley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31513. The Survey maps it on the Altamaha SW quadrangle.

McTier within Appling County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Altamaha SW quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

304 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 304 fires within 5 miles of McTier between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,397 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 27 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	185
Arson/incendiarism	27
Natural	23
Smoking	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	10

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 2020	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021APPLING009
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-APPLING-030
28 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020APPLING025
23 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-APPLING-027
19 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020APPLING019
16 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Appling 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
Wheaton	4.0 miles	8
Zion	5.3 miles	7
Bethel	5.3 miles	7
Warrick Homes	5.4 miles	8
Cook Heights	5.7 miles	8
Baxley	5.8 miles	8
Clay Homes	5.8 miles	8
Baker Homes	6.1 miles	8

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 Q122539870

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 332360. 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.