BlockMeriwether, Georgia
10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Milledgeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31061. The Survey maps it on the Lake Sinclair West quadrangle. It stands 361 feet above sea level.
On record in Meriwether
Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.
On the National Register 1 record
- Westbrook-Hubert Farmlisted 1997
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1972 USGS Lake Sinclair West quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
257 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 257 fires within 5 miles of Meriwether between 1992 and 2020, burning about 561 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 13 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 | 163 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Smoking | 6 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2021PUTNAM002 |
| 8 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020BALDWIN007 |
| 5 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020BALDWIN005 |
| 24 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 1.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-BALDWIN-001 |
| 22 September 2001 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-BALDWIN-005 |
| 21 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blandy | 5.5 miles | 11 | |
| Allenwood | 6.6 miles | 11 | |
| Milledgeville | 6.9 miles | 15 | |
| Browns Crossing | 7.7 miles | 11 | |
| Hardwick | 7.9 miles | 15 | |
| Carling (historical) | 8.1 miles | 15 | |
| Harrisburg | 8.5 miles | 15 | |
| Montpelier | 9.7 miles | 15 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Meriwether | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q6819583 | 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 326395. 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.