Screven Fork, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Riceboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31320. The Survey maps it on the Dorchester quadrangle.

Screven Fork within Liberty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 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.

1920 USGS Limerick quadrangle1:62500
1944 USGS Limerick quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Limerick quadrangle1:62500
1950 USGS Limerick quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Dorchester quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

655 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 655 fires within 5 miles of Screven Fork between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,760 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 216 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	338
Arson/incendiarism	216
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	37
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Natural	17
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Recreation and ceremony	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Smoking	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 1997	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020LIBERTY006
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Liberty 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
Crossroads	2.3 miles	14
Midway	3.9 miles	16
McIntosh	4.0 miles	18
Riceboro	4.0 miles	14
Dorchester	4.8 miles	16
Martins (historical)	5.9 miles	18
Allenhurst	6.2 miles	18
Retreat	6.3 miles	14

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.

Wikidata item Q122556817

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 332995. 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.