Northwood, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Valdosta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31602. It stands on Twomile Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hahira East quadrangle.

Northwood within Lowndes County

On record in Northwood

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Crestwoodlisted 1984 · 0.5 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Hahira East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

465 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 465 fires within 5 miles of Northwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 812 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 101 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	209
Arson/incendiarism	101
Equipment and vehicle use	41
Misuse of fire by a minor	34
Smoking	32
Railroad operations and maintenance	17
Natural	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	9

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 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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
Five Points	0.5 miles	9
Pebblewood	0.5 miles	9
Country Club Estates	0.6 miles	9
Eager	0.7 miles	9
Mederer Acres	1.0 miles	9
Windsor Park	1.1 miles	9
Cherokee Plantation	1.2 miles	9
Highland Heights	1.4 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 346313. 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.