Power Place, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1949 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Omaha census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31821. The Survey maps it on the Union quadrangle.

Power Place within Stewart County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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.

1949 USGS Julia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1950 USGS Lumpkin quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Lumpkin quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Union quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Power Place between 1992 and 2019, burning about 602 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Arson/incendiarism	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Smoking	4
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	7.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20130917-001
15 September 1996	Debris and open burning	6.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2011	Debris and open burning	3.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-STEWART-009
11 September 1995	Debris and open burning	8.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stewart 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
Perkins Place	0.3 miles	12
Childs Place	1.0 miles	12
Omaha	1.1 miles	10
Heard Place	2.3 miles	12
Spring Grove (historical)	2.3 miles	10
Gillis Place	2.7 miles	12
Florence	3.8 miles	9
Orletta (historical)	4.2 miles	12

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 Q122549767

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 332752. 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.