BlockOlney, Georgia
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Nevils-Stilson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31308. It stands on Sweeten Water Branch. The Survey maps it on the Guyton quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1919 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
- 1939 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500
- 1943 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500
- 1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
- 1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Guyton quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
281 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 281 fires within 5 miles of Olney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,358 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 37 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 | 170 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 37 |
| Natural | 28 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | 1.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 2.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 27 September 1993 | Natural | 7.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 25 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-EFFINGHAM-017 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326439. 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.