Salter, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1993. It lies in ZIP code area 31566. The Survey maps it on the Waynesville quadrangle.

Salter within Brantley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 17 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.

1917 USGS Nahunta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1918 USGS Nahunta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Waynesville quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Waynesville quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Waynesville quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Salter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 974 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 52 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	64
Arson/incendiarism	52
Natural	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BRANTLEY011
5 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-GLYNN-002
15 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-BRANTLEY-022
1 September 1992	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 Brantley 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
Happy Landing	3.7 miles	17
Waynesville	5.8 miles	17
Atkinson	6.3 miles	17
Lulaton	7.7 miles	17
Prosperity	9.0 miles	17
Big Oak	9.7 miles	17
Nahunta	10.9 miles	17
Hickox	10.9 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332962. 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.