Odessa, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jesup census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31546. It stands on Little McMillen Creek. The Survey maps it on the Jesup East quadrangle.

Odessa within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 14 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 Jesup quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1970 USGS Jesup East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

275 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 275 fires within 5 miles of Odessa between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,220 acres in total. 36 started naturally. 53 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	112
Arson/incendiarism	53
Natural	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Recreation and ceremony	9
Smoking	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4

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 2010	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WAYNE-018
8 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WAYNE-017
4 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WAYNE014
17 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WAYNE013

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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
Gardi	1.8 miles	14
Leake	4.4 miles	14
Jesup	4.9 miles	14
Pendarvis	5.0 miles	14
Paradise Park	5.9 miles	14
Slover	6.4 miles	14
Doctortown	6.6 miles	15
Drawdy	7.1 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326436. 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.