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Satilla Shores, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It lies in ZIP code area 31523. It lies near Hogans Little Island. The Survey maps it on the Dover Bluff quadrangle.

Satilla Shores within Camden County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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.

Fires near this place

241 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Satilla Shores between 1992 and 2018, burning about 834 acres in total. 32 started naturally. 37 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 burning70
Arson/incendiarism37
Railroad operations and maintenance34
Equipment and vehicle use32
Natural32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony9
Smoking4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2006Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Camden 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 Satilla Shores: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bruswick PlantGypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Camden 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Hogan1.4 miles18
Hickory Bluff2.3 miles18
Spring Bluff4.1 miles18
Ella Park (historical)4.4 miles18
Lampadocia (historical)7.2 miles18
Piney Bluff7.2 miles18
Dover Bluff7.5 miles18
Red Bluff8.9 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 325732. 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.