Sessoms, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Alma census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31554. The Survey maps it on the Sessoms quadrangle.

Sessoms within Bacon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Sessoms quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

341 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 341 fires within 5 miles of Sessoms between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24,506 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 64 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	190
Arson/incendiarism	64
Railroad operations and maintenance	26
Natural	21
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-COFFEE-002
6 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2016	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-COFFEE-018
30 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Guysie

Every fire recorded in Bacon 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
Guysie	3.4 miles	8
Alma	6.6 miles	8
Rockingham	9.1 miles	8
New Lacy	11.3 miles	7
Lambright	12.6 miles	7
Coffee	14.4 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333007. 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.