Musselwhite, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cordele census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31015. The Survey maps it on the Penia quadrangle.

Musselwhite within Crisp County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Penia quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

400 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 400 fires within 5 miles of Musselwhite between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,323 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 51 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	228
Arson/incendiarism	51
Equipment and vehicle use	44
Railroad operations and maintenance	30
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Recreation and ceremony	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	7
Smoking	4

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 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020CRISP003
9 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CRISP-005
5 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2005	Debris and open burning	5.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crisp 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
East Crisp	1.1 miles	7
Penia	1.4 miles	7
McKenzie	2.1 miles	7
Listonia	2.3 miles	7
Williford (historical)	3.8 miles	7
Cordele	4.5 miles	8
Wenona	4.7 miles	8
Tremont	4.8 miles	8

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 Q122594230

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 332458. 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.