Resource, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sylvania census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30467. The Survey maps it on the Jacksonboro Bridge quadrangle.

Resource within Screven 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.

1920 USGS Hilltonia quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Hilltonia quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Millen quadrangle1:125000
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Jacksonboro Bridge quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Sylvania quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

399 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 399 fires within 5 miles of Resource between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,213 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 38 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	239
Equipment and vehicle use	45
Arson/incendiarism	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Smoking	18
Natural	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
3 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	7.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020SCREVEN004
25 September 2012	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-SCREVEN-008
25 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Screven 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
Sylvania	2.8 miles	17
Green Hill	2.9 miles	16
Altman	3.1 miles	16
Farmdale	3.8 miles	16
Waters	4.4 miles	17
White Hill	5.0 miles	16
Jacksonboro (historical)	5.3 miles	17
Lewis	6.3 miles	17

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 Q122550671

The 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 2677693. 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.