Shirlington, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Macon East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31217. It stands on Dry Bone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Macon East quadrangle.

Shirlington within Bibb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1956 USGS Macon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1956 USGS Macon East quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

390 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 390 fires within 5 miles of Shirlington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 692 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 42 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	183
Misuse of fire by a minor	42
Arson/incendiarism	42
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Smoking	23
Railroad operations and maintenance	21
Recreation and ceremony	18
Natural	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16

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 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JONES009
20 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1993	Debris and open burning	23 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Shirlington: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fullers Earth. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Pikes Peak Fuller's Earth	Fullers Earth	Past Producer	Cristobalite, Opal, Montmorillonite
Burns Brick Co Mine	Clay	Producer
Cherokee Mine	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Bibb 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
Bristol Forest	0.4 miles	14
Duresville	0.6 miles	14
Cross Keys	0.6 miles	14
Sunnydale Acres	0.7 miles	14
Groveland	0.7 miles	14
Lakeside Hill	0.9 miles	14
Morningside	0.9 miles	14
Highland Hills	1.0 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672287. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.