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Rogers Acres, 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 31052. The Survey maps it on the Lizella quadrangle.

Rogers Acres 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.

Fires near this place

302 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 302 fires within 5 miles of Rogers Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,042 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 58 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 burning162
Arson/incendiarism58
Misuse of fire by a minor28
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking5

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2016Debris and open burning3.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CRAWFORD-005
8 September 2007Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2016Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CRAWFORD-003
3 September 2015Arson/incendiarism5.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-CRAWFORD-012
23 September 2015Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-CRAWFORD-014
23 September 2010Arson/incendiarism3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BIBB-003
22 September 2019Debris and open burning7.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020CRAWFORD003
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Dogwood Plantation1.2 miles11
Angels Acres1.6 miles11
Coal Neck Settlement (historical)2.2 miles14
Phelps Estates2.4 miles11
West Point2.8 miles11
Echeconnee Acres2.9 miles11
Shadowood3.3 miles11
Blanton Acres3.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672271. 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.