Parkertown, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Bowersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30553. It stands on Pooles Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lavonia quadrangle.

Parkertown within Hart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1891 USGS Carnesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Lavonia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Lavonia quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

187 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 187 fires within 5 miles of Parkertown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 475 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 16 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	110
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Arson/incendiarism	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HART001
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020FRANKLIN007
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HART-004
16 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hart 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
Parkertown Mill	0.3 miles	15
Shoal Creek	1.3 miles	15
Maretts	3.7 miles	14
Mount Olivet	4.9 miles	14
Cross Roads	4.9 miles	15
Reed Creek	6.1 miles	14
Bowersville	6.3 miles	14
Flat Shoals	7.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332611. 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.