Silas, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sandersville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31082. The Survey maps it on the Warthen quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Silas within Washington County

On record in Silas

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Sandersville High Schoollisted 2019 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Warthen quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

363 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 363 fires within 5 miles of Silas (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,065 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 29 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	180
Equipment and vehicle use	47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	40
Arson/incendiarism	29
Misuse of fire by a minor	23
Smoking	22
Natural	17
Recreation and ceremony	5

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 2018	Debris and open burning	6.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019WASHINGTON004
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1996	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WASHINGTON012
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Silas (historical): 4 producers, 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Kaolin. 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
Butts Mine	Kaolin	Producer
Anglo-American Mill	Clay	Plant
Deepstep Mine	Clay	Producer
Main Processing Plant	Clay	Producer
Sandersville Operations	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Sandersville	1.5 miles	9
Tanner	3.6 miles	8
Tennille	4.6 miles	9
Kaolin	4.6 miles	11
Sun Hill	5.1 miles	8
Tabernacle	6.5 miles	8
Sparks	6.8 miles	10
Warthen	6.9 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 348399. 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.