Northwest Woods, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hinesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31313. The Survey maps it on the Hinesville quadrangle.

Northwest Woods within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

1918 USGS Hinesville quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1944 USGS Hinesville quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Hinesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Hinesville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

539 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 539 fires within 5 miles of Northwest Woods between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,727 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 237 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	237
Debris and open burning	173
Misuse of fire by a minor	72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Recreation and ceremony	9
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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 2008	Arson/incendiarism	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-LONG-006
24 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019LONG002
16 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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
Ashmore	0.5 miles	18
Herbert Heights	0.5 miles	18
Deer Run Estates	0.5 miles	18
Mill Creek	0.6 miles	18
Woodwind South	0.7 miles	18
Pineview	0.8 miles	18
Garden Heights	0.8 miles	18
Evergreen	0.9 miles	18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 357114. 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.