Seaford, Georgia

6 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Barretts census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31605. The Survey maps it on the Bemiss quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Seaford within Lowndes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 6 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Bemiss quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

301 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 301 fires within 5 miles of Seaford (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 781 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 49 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	189
Arson/incendiarism	49
Equipment and vehicle use	24
Smoking	13
Natural	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4

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
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-LOWNDES-011
17 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	8.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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
Bemiss	2.2 miles	6
Barretts	3.0 miles	8
Franklinville	3.6 miles	9
Academy Acres	4.7 miles	6
Chapman (historical)	5.1 miles	6
Cherry Creek Hills	5.4 miles	9
Schoer Estates	5.7 miles	9
Oak	5.8 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 346343. 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.