Shell Bluff Landing, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Greens Cut census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30830. It sits by Shell Bluff. The Survey maps it on the Shell Bluff Landing quadrangle.

Shell Bluff Landing within Burke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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 Greens Cut quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Greens Cut quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Shell Bluff Landing quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

139 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Shell Bluff Landing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,224 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 36 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	71
Arson/incendiarism	36
Natural	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
19 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BURKE-009
14 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	400 D
12 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BURKE-022
6 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Savannah River Forest	CAT FACE FIRE
27 August 1997	Debris and open burning	29 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 1999	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burke 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
Hancock Landing	5.6 miles	17
Shell Bluff	6.7 miles	16
Telfair Woods	9.2 miles	16
Grove Mount	13.7 miles	15
Old Church	13.9 miles	16
Waynesboro	13.9 miles	15
Girard	14.1 miles	17
Alexander	14.4 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333025. 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.