Mitchell Forks, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Nevils-Stilson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30415. The Survey maps it on the Groveland quadrangle.

Mitchell Forks within Bulloch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

1920 USGS Pembroke quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Pembroke quadrangle1:62500
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Pembroke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Groveland quadrangle1:24000
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1976 USGS Groveland quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

252 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Mitchell Forks between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,448 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 45 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	151
Arson/incendiarism	45
Natural	17
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Recreation and ceremony	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	5.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1996	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BULLOCH008

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
Statesborough	2.1 miles	18
Denmark	3.1 miles	14
Nevils	3.4 miles	16
Enal (historical)	5.6 miles	16
Anderson Mill	5.6 miles	19
Overbrook	5.8 miles	19
Akins	6.1 miles	14
Bowen Mill	6.8 miles	19

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 Q122557839

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 332404. 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.