Seagraves, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Ila census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30646. It stands on Nowhere Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hull quadrangle.

Seagraves within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1891 USGS Carnesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hull quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Seagraves between 1992 and 2020, burning about 425 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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	93
Arson/incendiarism	17
Smoking	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
6 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2014	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-MADISON-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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
Sanford	1.3 miles	14
Planter	1.9 miles	14
Neese	2.6 miles	14
Rogers	4.1 miles	13
Minish	4.2 miles	13
Diamond Hill	4.8 miles	14
Diamond Rock (historical)	4.8 miles	14
Dogsboro	4.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 335546. 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.