Pfeiffer, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sylvania census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30467. It stands on Brier Creek. The Survey maps it on the Brier Creek Landing quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pfeiffer within Screven County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

1920 USGS Peeples quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Peeples quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Brier Creek Landing quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Pfeiffer (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 623 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 11 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	27
Arson/incendiarism	11
Natural	10
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	2

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
2 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1998	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1998	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 August 1993	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2020	Debris and open burning	5.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021SCREVEN001
27 July 2016	Debris and open burning	4.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-SCREVEN-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Screven 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
Brier Creek Landing	1.1 miles	15
Resource	7.8 miles	17
Green Hill	9.2 miles	16
Blue Springs	9.2 miles	15
White Hill	9.4 miles	16
Hunters	9.8 miles	16
Middleground	10.0 miles	16
Farmdale	10.3 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 350185. 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.