O'Leary, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Port Wentworth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31407. The Survey maps it on the Port Wentworth quadrangle.

O'Leary within Chatham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1942 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Port Wentworth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Port Wentworth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Port Wentworth quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of O'Leary between 1992 and 2020, burning about 719 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 45 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	62
Arson/incendiarism	45
Railroad operations and maintenance	28
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-EFFINGHAM-002
12 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Savannah Refuges	HWY-17
2 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-EFFINGHAM-001
13 August 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Savannah Refuges	UHAUL
11 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah Refuges	CHEVY VAN FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham 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
Mulberry Grove	1.7 miles	16
Monteith	2.2 miles	16
Meinhard	2.7 miles	16
Port Wentworth	4.3 miles	16
Port Wentworth Junction	4.7 miles	16
Starland Park	6.6 miles	15
Garden City	6.8 miles	15
Wheat Hill	7.3 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332524. 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.