BlockMiddle Place, Georgia
14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Savannah census division. It lies near Ossabaw Island. The Survey maps it on the Raccoon Key quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 14 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.
- 1944 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Raccoon Key quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Raccoon Key quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
12 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Middle Place between 1997 and 2010, burning about 63 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None was 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 | 5 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 15 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 August 2007 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 July 2006 | Natural | 8.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 July 2008 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 July 2007 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 July 2007 | Natural | 1.0 acres | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buckhead | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| Vernon View | 8.8 miles | 15 | |
| Burnside View | 8.8 miles | 15 | |
| Rio Vista | 8.9 miles | 15 | |
| Beaulieu | 9.0 miles | 15 | |
| Coffee Bluff | 9.6 miles | 17 | |
| Montgomery | 9.6 miles | 15 | |
| Skidaway Island | 9.8 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.
| Wikidata item Q122549887 | 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 332382. 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.