Old Rock Hill, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Barney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31625. The Survey maps it on the Berlin East quadrangle.

Old Rock Hill within Brooks County

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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Berlin East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

272 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 272 fires within 5 miles of Old Rock Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 823 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 31 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	178
Arson/incendiarism	31
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Railroad operations and maintenance	18
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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 2010	Debris and open burning	2.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BROOKS-004
26 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-COOK-009
24 September 2018	Debris and open burning	3.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019BROOKS001
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BROOKS-012
23 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BROOKS-011
18 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brooks 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
New Rock Hill	0.6 miles	9
Tallokas (historical)	2.5 miles	8
Barney	3.2 miles	9
Sand Hill	4.4 miles	8
Morven	6.2 miles	7
Pebble Hill	6.4 miles	8
Kennedy (historical)	7.0 miles	8
Ione	8.5 miles	9

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 Q122540967

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 345580. 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.