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Ranch Forest, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Columbus North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31904. The Survey maps it on the Fortson quadrangle.

Ranch Forest within Muscogee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Ranch Forest between 1992 and 2019, burning about 536 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 44 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
Arson/incendiarism44
Debris and open burning20
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minor9.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MUSCOGEE-001
2 September 1997Debris and open burning3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Arson/incendiarism10.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 1993Arson/incendiarism4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 1996Arson/incendiarism27 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2000Misuse of fire by a minor5.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-MUSCOGEE-005
5 July 1996Arson/incendiarism2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muscogee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ranch Forest: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Columbus QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Autumnridge0.5 miles18
Tulakes0.6 miles18
Kirkwood0.7 miles18
Double Churches0.9 miles18
Brookstone0.9 miles18
Lokey Estates0.9 miles18
Moores Forest1.0 miles18
Fox Chapel1.0 miles18

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 Q122543961The 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 357451. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.