Mill Creek, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Statesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30461. The Survey maps it on the Brooklet quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Mill Creek within Bulloch County

On record in Mill Creek

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 within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

East Main Street Commercial Historic Districtlisted 1989 · 0.9 miles away
East Vine Street Warehouse and Depot Districtlisted 1989 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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.

1921 USGS Brooklet quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1943 USGS Brooklet quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Brooklet quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of Mill Creek (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 647 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 11 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	127
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	2

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 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BULLOCH-012
21 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-BULLOCH-006
15 September 1996	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2001	Natural	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-BULLOCH-004
30 August 1993	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bulloch 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
Grimshaw	2.8 miles	14
Grove Lakes	3.0 miles	14
Grove Lakes South	3.2 miles	14
Pretoria	3.2 miles	14
Merrywood	3.4 miles	14
Windfield	3.6 miles	14
Colonial Heights	3.7 miles	14
Leefield	3.8 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 334633. 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.