Melrose, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1994. It lies in ZIP code area 31636. The Survey maps it on the Lake Park quadrangle.

Melrose within Lowndes 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
1971 USGS Lake Park quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Lake Park quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

267 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of Melrose between 1992 and 2020, burning about 949 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 47 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	119
Arson/incendiarism	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Natural	20
Smoking	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	133 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	CR 141 NW (24-04)
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020ECHOLS001
23 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-LOWNDES-009
21 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
20 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	DOLLAR STORE (24-4)

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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
Lake Park	3.7 miles	7
Herring	4.0 miles	7
Twin Lakes	5.3 miles	7
Dasher	8.6 miles	7
Clyattville	10.1 miles	10
Newsome	10.3 miles	6
Briggston	10.6 miles	10
Old Clyattville	10.9 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332369. 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.