Sand Hill, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Manor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31550. It lies near Horseshoe Island. The Survey maps it on the Manor quadrangle.

Sand Hill within Ware 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
1968 USGS Manor quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Sand Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 904 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 12 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	65
Natural	32
Railroad operations and maintenance	23
Arson/incendiarism	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-WARE-004
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WARE-012
19 September 2018	Natural	42 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019WARE005
16 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WARE-005
9 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ware 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
Glenmore	1.0 miles	8
Manor	1.9 miles	8
Three Points	4.2 miles	8
Ruskin	5.7 miles	8
Crews Crossing	5.9 miles	8
Pine Valley	6.3 miles	8
Needham	6.6 miles	8
Wahoma	6.8 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332966. 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.