Reese, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Godfrey census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30663. It stands on Campbell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Rutledge South quadrangle.

Reese within Morgan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

1896 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Rutledge South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

104 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Reese between 1992 and 2020, burning about 541 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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	61
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Arson/incendiarism	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	4
Natural	4
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
9 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-MORGAN-002
21 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-NEWTON-012
13 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 Morgan 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
Dickson	2.3 miles	16
Centennial	3.2 miles	16
Brownwood	3.9 miles	16
Pennington	5.1 miles	11
Dorsey	5.9 miles	16
Rutledge	6.0 miles	16
Aqua (historical)	7.3 miles	11
Beacon Heights	8.2 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326486. 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.