Ponderosa Lake, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fort Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31030. The Survey maps it on the Fort Valley West quadrangle.

Ponderosa Lake within Peach 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.

1956 USGS Fort Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Fort Valley West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

302 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 302 fires within 5 miles of Ponderosa Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 917 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 45 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	157
Arson/incendiarism	45
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Natural	12
Recreation and ceremony	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Smoking	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 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	98 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Peach 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
Washington Square	0.2 miles	11
Willow Lake	0.3 miles	11
State College	1.0 miles	11
Fort Valley	2.2 miles	11
Valley Pines	2.2 miles	11
Fagan	2.2 miles	10
Peach Valley	2.4 miles	11
Indian Oaks	2.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 343162. 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.