BlockParker Courthouse, Georgia
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mount Pleasant census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39834. The Survey maps it on the Climax North quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 12 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.
- 1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Whigham quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Climax North quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
183 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 183 fires within 5 miles of Parker Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 891 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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 | 147 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-DECATUR-010 |
| 18 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 1.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-GRADY-016 |
| 12 September 2002 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-GRADY-009 |
| 24 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 August 2004 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 August 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pleasant | 4.6 miles | 12 | |
| Vada | 6.3 miles | 9 | |
| Climax | 7.8 miles | 12 | |
| Otisco | 9.6 miles | 12 | |
| West Bainbridge | 9.7 miles | 12 | |
| Bainbridge | 10.1 miles | 12 | |
| Lynn | 10.4 miles | 12 | |
| Ausmac | 10.9 miles | 12 |
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 Q122541525 | 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 326451. 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.