River Bend, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the East Dougherty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31705. It stands on Dry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Baconton North quadrangle.

River Bend within Dougherty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Baconton quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1974 USGS Baconton North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

301 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 301 fires within 5 miles of River Bend between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,203 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 14 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	164
Railroad operations and maintenance	76
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Arson/incendiarism	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	3
Smoking	2

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
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1995	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dougherty 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
Putney	2.1 miles	11
Hollands Folly	2.2 miles	11
Loretta Heights	3.4 miles	11
Williamsburg	3.9 miles	11
Mockingbird Estates	4.7 miles	13
Riverdale	5.0 miles	13
Southgate	5.5 miles	13
Hotalihuyana (historical)	5.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332863. 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.