Minton, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Bridgeboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31744. The Survey maps it on the Sigsbee quadrangle.

Minton within Worth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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
1956 USGS Doerun quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Sigsbee quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

159 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 159 fires within 5 miles of Minton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,024 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 28 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	109
Arson/incendiarism	28
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
29 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WORTH-005
23 September 1996	Debris and open burning	4.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020COLQUITT009
22 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	2.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1997	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 Worth County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minton in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2020: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Minton	-	A large tree was blown down on Phillip Causey Road.
May 2016	Hail	Minton	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Worth 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
Anderson City	2.2 miles	10
Powelltown	4.2 miles	10
Tempy	6.5 miles	10
Scooterville	7.1 miles	8
Liberty Hill	7.1 miles	10
Pritchetts	7.3 miles	9
Livingston	7.8 miles	10
Parkerville	8.3 miles	10

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 Q122549514

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 332403. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.