River Farms, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Watkinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30677. It stands on Porters Creek. The Survey maps it on the Barnett Shoals quadrangle.

River Farms within Oconee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Barnett Shoals quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of River Farms between 1992 and 2018, burning about 248 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 18 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	50
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Arson/incendiarism	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-OCONEE-002
18 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2003	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-OCONEE-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconee 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
Old Mill Chase	0.7 miles	11
Oak Point	1.1 miles	11
Pioneer Woods	1.2 miles	11
Pine Hills	1.4 miles	11
Rutherford (historical)	1.9 miles	11
Victoria Station	2.4 miles	12
Sherwood Forest	2.6 miles	15
The Briars	2.8 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356796. 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.