Piedmont, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Monticello census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31064. The Survey maps it on the Smithboro quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Piedmont within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Smithboro quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

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 Piedmont (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 512 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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	96
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Natural	8
Smoking	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	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
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JASPER002
4 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	7.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-JASPER-006
31 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1998	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 1998	Debris and open burning	5.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper 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
Smithboro	2.2 miles	11
Goolsby	3.1 miles	12
Monticello	5.0 miles	11
Benton Crossing (historical)	5.2 miles	11
Adgateville	5.3 miles	12
Minneta	6.1 miles	11
Hillsboro	7.0 miles	12
Aikenton	7.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 346172. 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.