Otter Creek, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Patterson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31557. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Blackshear East quadrangle.

Otter Creek within Pierce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Blackshear East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

345 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 345 fires within 5 miles of Otter Creek between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,118 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 50 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	188
Arson/incendiarism	50
Natural	28
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Railroad operations and maintenance	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	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 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-PIERCE-003
5 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	5.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-PIERCE-016
24 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce 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
Owen	3.3 miles	8
Patterson	4.4 miles	7
Zirkle (historical)	5.1 miles	8
Blackshear	5.8 miles	8
Offerman	6.0 miles	8
Youman	7.7 miles	8
Aspinwall	8.0 miles	7
Homestead	8.3 miles	8

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 Otter Creek	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7109359	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 326443. 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.