Sharon, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Milan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31077. The Survey maps it on the Rhine quadrangle.

Sharon within Telfair County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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
1977 USGS Rhine quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

262 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 262 fires within 5 miles of Sharon between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,072 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 32 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	161
Arson/incendiarism	32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Natural	15
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	6
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
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	5.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TELFAIR-011
27 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TELFAIR-010
26 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	Smoking	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Telfair 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
Temperance	0.8 miles	7
China Hill	3.4 miles	7
Cobbville	8.6 miles	7
Jacksonville	9.6 miles	8
Milan	10.3 miles	8
Workmore	11.2 miles	7
Neily	12.0 miles	7
Cedarpark	17.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356952. 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.