Snow Spring, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Unadilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31091. The Survey maps it on the Henderson quadrangle.

Snow Spring within Dooly County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 8 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Henderson quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Snow Spring between 1992 and 2020, burning about 563 acres in total. 5 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	96
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Arson/incendiarism	16
Natural	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	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 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-DOOLY-003
4 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020DOOLY004
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2016	Debris and open burning	27 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-DOOLY-004
24 September 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	6.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-DOOLY-006
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-DOOLY-002
4 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dooly 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
Emerich	2.1 miles	8
Unadilla	2.4 miles	10
Pinehurst	4.1 miles	9
Findlay	6.9 miles	9
Sugar Hill	7.2 miles	10
Byromville	7.6 miles	8
Dooling	7.9 miles	8
Lilly	9.0 miles	8

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.

Wikipedia article on Snow Spring	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65045290	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 333083. 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.