Sapelo Island, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Darien census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31327. It stands on Lighthouse Creek. The Survey maps it on the Doboy Sound quadrangle. It stands 13 feet above sea level.

Sapelo Island within McIntosh County

On record in Sapelo Island

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Sapelo Island Lighthouselisted 1997

Surveyed buildings and structures 1 record

Spanish Fort (Ruins), Sapelo Islandfederal building survey, 1 photograph

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1921 USGS Darien quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Doboy Sound quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Doboy Sound quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Doboy Sound quadrangle1:24000

Photographs

3 photographs, 2017

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Aerial view of Sapelo Island Lighthouse, a nautical light near the southern tip of Sapelo Island, Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress

Aerial photo of the mouth of Blackbeard Creek on Sapelo Island, Georgia, south of Savannah
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Sapelo Island between 1998 and 2012, burning about 1,350 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Debris and open burning	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
7 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Blackbeard Island National Wildlife Refuge	BARNARD#1
22 July 1998	Natural	1,080 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 July 2000	Natural	26 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-MCINTOSH-012
23 April 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 April 2001	Arson/incendiarism	30 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-MCINTOSH-073
12 April 1999	Smoking	171 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 April 2012	Debris and open burning	43 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MCINTOSH-028

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McIntosh 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
Doboy (historical)	2.6 miles	16
Raccoon Bluff	5.3 miles	15
Meridian	6.5 miles	16
Ridgeville	6.5 miles	16
Valona	6.6 miles	16
Carnigan	6.6 miles	16
Ashintilly	6.9 miles	16
Cedar Point	7.8 miles	16

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 Sapelo Island	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q515603	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 332979. 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.