Petersons, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Folkston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31537. It lies near Trouble Valley. The Survey maps it on the Newell quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Petersons within Charlton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1918 USGS Folkston quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS Newell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Okefenokee Swamp quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Petersons (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,285 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 21 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	53
Natural	50
Arson/incendiarism	21
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-CHARLTON-002
9 August 2008	Natural	19 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 2011	Natural	6.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-CHARLTON-008
24 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-CHARLTON-006
23 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-CHARLTON-008
23 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlton 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
Newell	2.1 miles	10
Prescott (historical)	3.8 miles	17
Winokur	4.6 miles	8
Cypress Siding	4.7 miles	10
Mattox	4.9 miles	10
Uptonville	5.5 miles	10
Racepond	5.9 miles	8
Homeland	8.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 357780. 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.