Shiver, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Quitman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31643. It stands on Coon Creek. The Survey maps it on the Quitman quadrangle.

Shiver within Brooks County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Quitman quadrangle1:62500
1974 USGS Quitman quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Quitman quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

486 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 486 fires within 5 miles of Shiver between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,897 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 138 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	250
Arson/incendiarism	138
Equipment and vehicle use	58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Natural	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4

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
8 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BROOKS-005
30 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-BROOKS-011
25 September 2008	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 Brooks 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
Fodie	1.5 miles	8
Spain	2.5 miles	8
Quitman	3.1 miles	8
Durden	4.4 miles	7
Blue Springs	5.2 miles	7
Emerson	6.0 miles	8
Golden (historical)	6.0 miles	7
Tillman (historical)	6.0 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333038. 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.