BlockPopwellville, Georgia
16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Waynesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31543. It stands on Well Branch. The Survey maps it on the Thalmann quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 16 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1918 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1920 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500
- 1944 USGS Everett City quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Thalmann quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Thalmann quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
251 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 251 fires within 5 miles of Popwellville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,123 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 66 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 | 95 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 66 |
| Natural | 34 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020BRANTLEY021 |
| 3 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 14 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-BRANTLEY-007 |
| 7 August 1998 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 August 2011 | Natural | 120 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-BRANTLEY-015 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q122542251 | The 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 321061. 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.