Prosperity, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Nahunta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31553. The Survey maps it on the Nahunta quadrangle.

Prosperity within Brantley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1917 USGS Nahunta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1918 USGS Nahunta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
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 Nahunta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Nahunta quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

451 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 451 fires within 5 miles of Prosperity between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,900 acres in total. 66 started naturally. 99 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	190
Arson/incendiarism	99
Natural	66
Equipment and vehicle use	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	19
Recreation and ceremony	14
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
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
9 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	18 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BRANTLEY012
7 September 2016	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BRANTLEY-011
7 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BRANTLEY-010
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BRANTLEY-005
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-BRANTLEY-014

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brantley 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
Lulaton	1.8 miles	17
Nahunta	2.4 miles	17
Burton Terrace	2.9 miles	17
Raybon	4.1 miles	14
Atkinson	4.6 miles	17
Hickox	5.2 miles	17
Happy Landing	5.4 miles	17
Trudie	6.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332765. 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.