Old Dellwood, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Swainsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30401. The Survey maps it on the Summertown quadrangle.

Old Dellwood within Emanuel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Summertown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

301 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 301 fires within 5 miles of Old Dellwood between 1992 and 2020, burning about 953 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 39 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	180
Arson/incendiarism	39
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Natural	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Recreation and ceremony	9
Smoking	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 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2008	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emanuel 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
Dellwood	1.0 miles	7
Modoc	3.1 miles	8
Blun	4.3 miles	8
Swainsboro	5.2 miles	7
Blundale	5.7 miles	7
Summertown	7.1 miles	8
Gary	8.0 miles	7
Stevens Crossing	9.3 miles	7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122563222

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332564. 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.