Smiths Crossroads, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pine Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31822. The Survey maps it on the Pine Mountain SW quadrangle.

Smiths Crossroads within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Pine Mountain SW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Smiths Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 614 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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	72
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Smoking	8
Natural	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
23 September 2017	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-HARRIS-001
13 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HARRIS002
13 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HARRIS-007
25 August 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 August 1995	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 July 1993	Recreation and ceremony	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris 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
Hopewell	1.5 miles	11
Wisdoms Store (historical)	2.0 miles	11
Beech Springs	3.0 miles	11
Copeland (historical)	3.4 miles	11
Champion Crossroad	3.5 miles	10
Tip Top	4.2 miles	10
Pine Mountain	4.6 miles	10
Mountainbrook	4.7 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326519. 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.