Rockmill, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lizella census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31220. The Survey maps it on the Lizella quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Rockmill within Bibb 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.

1956 USGS Bolingbroke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Lizella quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

164 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Rockmill (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 650 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 17 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	104
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	5
Smoking	5

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
21 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-MONROE-011
28 August 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	4.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BIBB-002
28 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 2007	Natural	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1998	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 Bibb 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
Beaveroaks	1.4 miles	11
Kings Cove	2.9 miles	11
Camelot	3.1 miles	11
Montpelier (historical)	3.1 miles	10
Trails End	3.2 miles	11
Christophers Cove	3.5 miles	11
Cherokee	3.5 miles	11
Lakeview	3.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672270. 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.