Saginaw, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Nicholls census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31554. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nicholls quadrangle.

Saginaw within Coffee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Nicholls quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

323 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 323 fires within 5 miles of Saginaw between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,663 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 28 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	223
Natural	32
Arson/incendiarism	28
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-COFFEE-002
9 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-COFFEE-018
30 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coffee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Saginaw: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unnamed Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect	Alluvium

Every working recorded in Coffee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saginaw in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2026: 3 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Saginaw	$15,000	A damaging wind gust snapped a large tree that fell on a house near Nicholls, GA. The tree destroyed the roof over the front porch. There were also multiple trees and powerlines down along New Forest Hwy. Time was determined by doorbell security camera footage.
January 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Saginaw	-	Several structures and trees were damaged and blown down along Highway 158 SE of Douglas. The time of damage was based on radar.
December 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Saginaw	-	Emergency Management reported some trees and power lines down along State Road 32 west of Nicholls.

Every storm recorded in Coffee 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
Nicholls	1.8 miles	8
Chatterton	3.5 miles	8
Wilsonville	7.3 miles	7
Huffer	7.3 miles	8
Cherokee Hills	7.4 miles	8
West Green	7.5 miles	8
Oak Park	7.8 miles	8
Douglas	9.6 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332953. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.