Port Wentworth Junction, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Port Wentworth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31407. The Survey maps it on the Port Wentworth quadrangle.

Port Wentworth Junction within Chatham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1942 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Port Wentworth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Port Wentworth quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Port Wentworth quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

246 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 246 fires within 5 miles of Port Wentworth Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,350 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 52 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	55
Arson/incendiarism	52
Debris and open burning	46
Misuse of fire by a minor	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Recreation and ceremony	11
Natural	10
Smoking	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
8 September 2007	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-CHATHAM-003
12 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham 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
Port Wentworth	1.6 miles	16
Starland Park	2.3 miles	15
Monteith	2.5 miles	16
Meinhard	2.8 miles	16
Garden City	2.9 miles	15
Wheat Hill	3.2 miles	15
Pooler	3.5 miles	15
Hamer	3.5 miles	15

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 Q122561576

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 332734. 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.