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Pancras, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Coopers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31031. It stands on Little Camp Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gordon quadrangle.

Pancras within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

Fires near this place

366 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 366 fires within 5 miles of Pancras between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,106 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 13 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 burning212
Equipment and vehicle use37
Smoking29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism13
Recreation and ceremony11
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1999Natural23 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BALDWIN012
26 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BALDWIN-005
26 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BALDWIN-006
25 September 2016Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BALDWIN-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Pancras: 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Drill Site 1AluminumProspect
General Refractories MineAluminumPast Producer
Stevens Pottery PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
Stevens WorksKaolinProducer
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium
Youngblood MineKaolinProducer

Every working recorded in Baldwin 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Mount Pleasant1.2 miles12
The Colony1.8 miles15
Coopers2.0 miles10
Scottsboro2.2 miles15
Harrisburg3.6 miles15
Carling (historical)4.1 miles15
Allenwood4.9 miles11
Hardwick5.2 miles15

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 Q122597226The 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 332598. 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.