Smiths Mill, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Monticello census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31064. It stands on Herds Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lloyd Shoals Dam quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Smiths Mill within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Lloyd Shoals Dam quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

255 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of Smiths Mill (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 794 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 22 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	149
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Recreation and ceremony	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	11
Natural	9
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
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1994	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JASPER005
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper 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
Mechanicsville (historical)	3.4 miles	12
Turtles Cove	4.5 miles	12
Hardys Crossroads	4.6 miles	12
Bethel	4.9 miles	12
Alcovy Shores	5.0 miles	12
McElheneys Crossroads	6.6 miles	14
Palato	6.7 miles	11
Minneta	7.1 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 346186. 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.