Myrtle Grove, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Richmond Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31324. The Survey maps it on the Burroughs quadrangle.

Myrtle Grove within Bryan County

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.

1944 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Burroughs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Burroughs quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

164 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Myrtle Grove between 1992 and 2020, burning about 831 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 69 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
Arson/incendiarism	69
Debris and open burning	50
Misuse of fire by a minor	16
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	1

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
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 1993	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 August 2016	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CHATHAM-003
17 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-BRYAN SOUTH-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bryan 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
Rabbit Hill	1.9 miles	18
Buckhead	2.1 miles	17
Oak Level	2.3 miles	15
Sweet Hill	2.5 miles	15
Fort McAllister	2.7 miles	17
Keller	2.9 miles	17
Port Royal	3.0 miles	18
Cottonham (historical)	3.7 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332460. 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.