Silver Hill, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Folkston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31537. It lies near McDonald Island. The Survey maps it on the Chase Prairie quadrangle.

Silver Hill within Charlton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1918 USGS Folkston quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Chase Prairie quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Okefenokee Swamp quadrangle1:100000
1994 USGS Chase Prairie quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

95 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 95 fires within 5 miles of Silver Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,082 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 2 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
Natural	41
Debris and open burning	39
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
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 2002	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CHARLTON-006
8 August 2006	Natural	6.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2006	Natural	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2011	Natural	7.8 acres	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	GA-28 (KNOCK OFF)
3 August 2004	Natural	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 August 2017	Natural	24 acres	Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge	PRICE ROAD
18 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlton 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
Paxton	2.9 miles	11
Uptonville	5.3 miles	10
Homeland	5.7 miles	11
Oakdale	5.8 miles	11
Mattox	5.9 miles	10
Folkston	6.2 miles	11
Traders Hill	6.5 miles	11
Ferry Landing	6.6 miles	11

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 Q60751035

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 333055. 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.