Smiley, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ludowici North census division. It stands on Kirkland Creek. The Survey maps it on the Glennville NE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Smiley within Long County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1920 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Glennville NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Smiley (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,115 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 41 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	102
Arson/incendiarism	41
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020LONG008
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	82 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020LONG006
20 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1993	Debris and open burning	38 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-LONG-006
10 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	9.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-LONG-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Long 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
Smiley Crossroads	3.8 miles	16
Kent (historical)	4.0 miles	16
Beards Creek	5.4 miles	17
Donald	6.7 miles	16
Noble	8.1 miles	17
Roderick (historical)	8.3 miles	16
Wefanie	9.7 miles	16
Elim	10.5 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 348184. 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.