Pride, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mayfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31087. It stands on Battle Branch. The Survey maps it on the Sparta NW quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Pride within Hancock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Sparta NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

76 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Pride (historical) between 1993 and 2019, burning about 615 acres in total. 13 started naturally. None was 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	40
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3

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
7 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HANCOCK-019
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HANCOCK-017
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HANCOCK-018
22 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-TALIAFERRO-002
21 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HANCOCK-022
17 September 2011	Natural	30 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HANCOCK-021
15 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock 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
Powelton	1.8 miles	10
Springfield	2.2 miles	10
Gum Hill	6.9 miles	11
Mount Zion	7.1 miles	10
Mayfield	7.4 miles	10
Culverton	8.1 miles	10
Sunshine (historical)	8.8 miles	10
Granite Hill	9.4 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 348249. 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.