New York, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Philema census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31743. It stands on Hawkins Branch. The Survey maps it on the Warwick quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

New York within Lee 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 Warwick quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of New York (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,050 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 10 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	74
Arson/incendiarism	10
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
4 September 1992	Debris and open burning	5.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WORTH-005
24 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-WORTH-004
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-LEE-006
18 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 July 2012	Natural	12 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-LEE-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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
Philema	4.2 miles	10
Chokee	6.1 miles	9
Mossy Dell	7.0 miles	10
Chehaw	7.7 miles	10
Starksville	8.3 miles	9
Beloit	10.5 miles	10
Leesburg	10.7 miles	10
Scrutchins	11.0 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 343396. 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.