Ossahatchie, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Waverly Hall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31807. The Survey maps it on the Cataula quadrangle.

Ossahatchie within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1950 USGS Cataula quadrangle1:24000
1950 USGS Ellerslie quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Cataula quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Ellerslie quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

198 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Ossahatchie between 1992 and 2019, burning about 590 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 42 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	116
Arson/incendiarism	42
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Smoking	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-HARRIS-003
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HARRIS-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris 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
Ellerslie	2.0 miles	15
Turntime Crossroads	2.6 miles	15
Waverly Hall	2.9 miles	16
Gordydale	3.0 miles	17
Ridgeway	3.2 miles	16
Cataula	4.9 miles	15
Rehobeth	5.8 miles	16
Kingsboro	6.2 miles	15

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.

Wikipedia article on Ossahatchie	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q85791340	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 356452. 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.