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Piney Grove, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hamilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31808. The Survey maps it on the Bartletts Ferry Dam quadrangle. 434 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 594 feet above sea level.

Piney Grove within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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.

Fires near this place

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Piney Grove between 1992 and 2019, burning about 661 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 37 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 burning63
Arson/incendiarism37
Recreation and ceremony5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Smoking3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2016Debris and open burning12 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20160909-6
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HARRIS-005
7 September 2010Arson/incendiarism65 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HARRIS-004
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1995Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2007Natural6.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Acton (historical)2.3 miles13
Antioch3.7 miles13
Mulberry Grove4.9 miles16
Mountain Hill6.7 miles13
Bayard (historical)7.6 miles16
Rehobeth8.2 miles16
Clines Crossroads8.4 miles13
Cataula9.1 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Piney GroveAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q25021365The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 350999. 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.