Springfield, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mayfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31087. The Survey maps it on the Sparta NW quadrangle.

Springfield within Hancock County

On record in Springfield

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.

Camilla-Zack Community Center Districtlisted 1974 · 0.4 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Sparta NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Springfield between 1992 and 2019, burning about 529 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 1 was 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Natural	12
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	4
Arson/incendiarism	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
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HANCOCK-019
3 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HANCOCK-017
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HANCOCK-018
21 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HANCOCK-022
17 September 2011	Natural	30 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HANCOCK-021
15 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-HANCOCK-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock 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
Pride (historical)	2.2 miles	10
Powelton	4.0 miles	10
Gum Hill	4.9 miles	11
Mount Zion	5.0 miles	10
Culverton	7.7 miles	10
Sunshine (historical)	8.0 miles	10
Granite Hill	8.4 miles	10
Mayfield	8.6 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333106. 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.