Spring Branch, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Guyton-Springfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31329. It stands on White Deer Branch. The Survey maps it on the Springfield South quadrangle.

Spring Branch within Effingham County

On record in Spring Branch

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Springfield Historic Districtlisted 2021 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1919 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1939 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Egypt quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Springfield South quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

395 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 395 fires within 5 miles of Spring Branch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,431 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 88 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	213
Arson/incendiarism	88
Natural	21
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	4

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
4 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020EFFINGHAM007
23 September 1993	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Effingham 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
Springfield	1.0 miles	16
Rahns	3.5 miles	16
Stillwell	3.6 miles	16
Birds	3.9 miles	16
Bethel	4.4 miles	16
Guyton	4.4 miles	16
Berryville	5.6 miles	16
Rincon	6.0 miles	16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 350266. 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.