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Southern Manor, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1999. It stands in the Douglasville-Lithia Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30122. The Survey maps it on the Campbellton quadrangle.

Southern Manor within Douglas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Southern Manor between 1992 and 2018, burning about 300 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 45 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
Arson/incendiarism45
Debris and open burning31
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-DOUGLAS-001
6 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Debris and open burning4.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1992Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-DOUGLAS-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Southern Manor: 6 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lithia Springs QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Anders DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Suggs DredgeSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Altizer PitClayProducer
Douglas County Clay MineClayProducer
Douglas MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Leisure Acres0.5 miles20
Chestnut Log0.5 miles17
Meadowview0.6 miles17
South Ridge0.8 miles17
Leeward Park0.8 miles20
Lake Estates0.9 miles20
Trail Creek1.0 miles20
Park Place1.0 miles20

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.

Wikidata item Q122543184The 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 1686531. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.