Pindertown, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Warwick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31772. It stands on Jones Creek. The Survey maps it on the Warwick quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pindertown within Worth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Warwick quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

152 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 152 fires within 5 miles of Pindertown (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 610 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 13 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	109
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Arson/incendiarism	13
Natural	7
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
4 September 1992	Debris and open burning	5.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WORTH-006
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WORTH-005
24 September 2012	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-WORTH-004
20 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-LEE-008
17 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-LEE-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth 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
Oakfield	2.0 miles	7
Davis Mill	3.7 miles	7
Aultmans (historical)	5.7 miles	9
Blue Spring (historical)	5.8 miles	9
Warwick	6.6 miles	7
Doles	6.6 miles	9
Acorn Pond	8.1 miles	7
Cuffietown	9.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 343322. 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.