Petty, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pelham census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31730. The Survey maps it on the Camilla quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Petty within Mitchell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

536 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 536 fires within 5 miles of Petty (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,448 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 34 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	333
Railroad operations and maintenance	61
Equipment and vehicle use	46
Arson/incendiarism	34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Smoking	10
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	5

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 2007	Arson/incendiarism	7.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mitchell 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
Rogerville	3.3 miles	8
Pelham	3.6 miles	9
Camilla	4.3 miles	9
Saco (historical)	4.5 miles	8
Cotton	5.5 miles	8
Adelaide	6.2 miles	10
Pebble City	6.8 miles	8
Hinsonton	7.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 343656. 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.