Ottawa Estates, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pooler-Bloomingdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31302. The Survey maps it on the Meldrim quadrangle.

Ottawa Estates within Chatham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 18 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.

1920 USGS Meldrim quadrangle1:62500
1942 USGS Meldrim quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Meldrim quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Meldrim quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

443 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 443 fires within 5 miles of Ottawa Estates between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,040 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 113 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	177
Arson/incendiarism	113
Misuse of fire by a minor	54
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Natural	21
Recreation and ceremony	16
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Smoking	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	6

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 1999	Debris and open burning	4.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	26 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	6.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020CHATHAM002
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1993	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ottawa Estates: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Davis Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Finley Pit No. 4	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fortner Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Chatham 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
Bloomingdale	0.3 miles	18
Pooler	2.8 miles	15
Tutens	2.9 miles	18
Williams	2.9 miles	18
Garden Acres Estates	3.1 miles	18
Starland Park	3.7 miles	15
Hamer	5.3 miles	15
Port Wentworth Junction	5.5 miles	16

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 Q122553531

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 1694622. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.