Sofkee, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Calvary-Reno census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39897. It stands on Maxwell Creek. The Survey maps it on the Reno quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Sofkee within Grady 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.

1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Whigham quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Reno quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

274 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 274 fires within 5 miles of Sofkee (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 797 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 15 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	197
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Arson/incendiarism	15
Smoking	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	6

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 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	4.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-GRADY-007
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020GRADY012
28 September 2006	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 Grady 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
Nickleville	1.7 miles	12
Reno	2.0 miles	12
Orange Springs	2.1 miles	12
Good Hope (historical)	3.2 miles	12
Bethel	3.3 miles	12
Magnolia	3.5 miles	12
Providence	4.1 miles	12
Pine Hill	5.6 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 342537. 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.