Saint George, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the St. George census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31562. It stands on Mims Creek. The Survey maps it on the Saint George quadrangle. It stands 79 feet above sea level.

Saint George within Charlton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1918 USGS Moniac quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1942 USGS Moniac quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1966 USGS St George quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Okefenokee Swamp quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Saint George quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

209 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Saint George between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,105 acres in total. 58 started naturally. 50 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	62
Natural	58
Arson/incendiarism	50
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Railroad operations and maintenance	12
Smoking	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	not named
29 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	ROAD 284 (45)
28 September 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.0 acres	Florida Forest Service	not named
15 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CHARLTON-016
11 September 2013	Natural	7.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-CHARLTON-003
8 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlton County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Saint George: 1 plant, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Kyanite, Titanium, Zirconium, Clay. 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
	Highland Concentrator	Aluminum, Kyanite, Titanium, Zirconium	Plant
	Unnamed Clay Deposit	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Charlton 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
Clarking	4.3 miles	13
Boggy	6.0 miles	11
Toledo	8.0 miles	12
Stokesville	9.6 miles	13
Moniac	9.9 miles	11
Stanley Landing	16.1 miles	11
Traders Hill	17.8 miles	11
Ferry Landing	18.1 miles	11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Saint George	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q3710661	The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 322063. 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.