Spain, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Morven census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31638. The Survey maps it on the Quitman quadrangle.

Spain within Brooks 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Quitman quadrangle1:62500
1974 USGS Quitman quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Quitman quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

480 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 480 fires within 5 miles of Spain between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,031 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 135 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	251
Arson/incendiarism	135
Equipment and vehicle use	60
Smoking	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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 2007	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1995	Arson/incendiarism	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-BROOKS-011
25 September 2008	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 Brooks 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
Fodie	1.1 miles	8
Shiver	2.5 miles	8
Kennedy (historical)	3.8 miles	8
Pebble Hill	4.2 miles	8
Tillman (historical)	4.4 miles	7
Golden (historical)	5.0 miles	7
Quitman	5.6 miles	8
Morven	5.7 miles	7

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 Q42296490

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 326524. 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.