Musgrove, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Dexter census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31019. It stands on Little Stitchihatchie Branch. The Survey maps it on the Dexter quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Musgrove within Laurens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Dexter quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

423 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 423 fires within 5 miles of Musgrove (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,246 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 46 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	263
Arson/incendiarism	46
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Natural	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Recreation and ceremony	16
Smoking	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	10

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
6 September 2020	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021LAURENS023
6 September 2014	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-LAURENS-029
4 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	8.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020LAURENS033
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020LAURENS031
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-DODGE-017
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-DODGE-018

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurens 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
Alcorns	1.2 miles	8
Dexter	1.8 miles	8
Nameless	2.3 miles	8
Five Points	2.3 miles	8
Springhaven (historical)	3.8 miles	8
Alligood	4.7 miles	8
Kewanee	5.3 miles	8
Rentz	5.7 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 346588. 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.