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Mount Herman, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Savannah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31419. It stands on Friday Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burroughs quadrangle.

Mount Herman within Chatham County

On record in Mount Herman

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 1 record

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Mount Herman between 1992 and 2017, burning about 344 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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 burning25
Arson/incendiarism14
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Recreation and ceremony10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2012Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-CHATHAM-003
3 August 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHATHAM-002
18 August 2016Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHATHAM-003
26 July 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2000Recreation and ceremony6.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CHATHAM-006
4 June 1996Debris and open burning4.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 June 1996Recreation and ceremony14 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mount Pleasant0.4 miles17
Nicholsonville0.6 miles17
Colonial Oaks0.6 miles17
Cedar Grove0.6 miles17
Berkshire Woods0.7 miles17
Coffee Bluff Plantation0.8 miles17
Welwood1.2 miles17
Coffee Bluff1.2 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332430. 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.