Simpson, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Centralhatchee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30217. The Survey maps it on the Frolona quadrangle.

Simpson within Heard County

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.

1899 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Frolona quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

170 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 170 fires within 5 miles of Simpson between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,336 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 16 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	110
Arson/incendiarism	16
Smoking	14
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Natural	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
9 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	22 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1997	Smoking	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-HEARD-003
7 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-HEARD-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Heard 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
Hyatt	0.3 miles	11
Barkers Crossroads	1.8 miles	11
Elery	2.1 miles	11
Mahailey Crossroads	2.6 miles	11
Rockalo	2.7 miles	11
Unity	3.2 miles	11
Yates Crossroads	3.5 miles	11
Ridley	3.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333059. 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.