Shewmake, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Dudley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31021. The Survey maps it on the Dudley quadrangle.

Shewmake within Laurens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Dudley quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

630 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 630 fires within 5 miles of Shewmake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,144 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 58 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	344
Equipment and vehicle use	86
Arson/incendiarism	58
Railroad operations and maintenance	28
Smoking	27
Misuse of fire by a minor	23
Natural	23
Recreation and ceremony	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19

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 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-LAURENS-031
9 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-LAURENS-036
9 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-LAURENS-003
7 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2020	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021LAURENS023
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurens 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
Whipples Crossing	1.6 miles	8
Moores	2.4 miles	8
Dudley	2.7 miles	8
Kewanee	3.3 miles	8
Vincent	3.3 miles	8
Harlow	3.4 miles	8
Springhaven (historical)	4.6 miles	8
Haskins Crossing	4.9 miles	8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122551600

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326512. 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.