Purvis, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Glennville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30427. The Survey maps it on the Deans Crossing quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Purvis within Tattnall County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 19 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.

1919 USGS Claxton quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Claxton quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Claxton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1958 USGS Deans Crossing quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

255 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of Purvis (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,139 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 39 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	160
Arson/incendiarism	39
Natural	14
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6

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 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TATTNALL012
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TATTNALL009
24 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2006	Debris and open burning	6.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021TATTNALL005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tattnall 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
Mendes	0.2 miles	17
Lynn	2.1 miles	17
Bradleys (historical)	2.5 miles	9
Kicklighter (historical)	3.8 miles	17
Birdford (historical)	4.7 miles	17
Midway	4.8 miles	19
Tison	5.0 miles	8
Glennville	5.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 347432. 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.