Ridgewood Plantation, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Everett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31525. The Survey maps it on the Brunswick West quadrangle.

Ridgewood Plantation within Glynn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1918 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1939 USGS Bladen quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Brunswick West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Brunswick West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

375 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 375 fires within 5 miles of Ridgewood Plantation between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,133 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 115 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/incendiarism	115
Debris and open burning	115
Misuse of fire by a minor	46
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Natural	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4

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 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-GLYNN-002
20 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glynn 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
Pine Haven	0.2 miles	17
Northwood Estates	0.8 miles	19
Southern Junction	1.3 miles	19
High Hill Lake	1.3 miles	19
Groveside Park	1.4 miles	17
Pinehurst	1.5 miles	19
Parkwood	1.6 miles	19
Shady Acres	1.7 miles	19

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 Q122598524

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 1671579. 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.