Springfield, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Jakin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39861. The Survey maps it on the Lucile quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Springfield within Early County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Lucile quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Springfield (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 804 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 13 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	99
Equipment and vehicle use	41
Arson/incendiarism	13
Smoking	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
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
7 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-MILLER-003
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-EARLY-017
22 September 2017	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-EARLY-002
20 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-EARLY-015
18 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-MILLER-001
12 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Early 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
Killarney	0.5 miles	9
Jones Crossroads	2.0 miles	9
Howards Mill	2.9 miles	9
Jakin	4.3 miles	8
Saffold	5.2 miles	8
Cedar Springs	5.8 miles	9
Lucile	6.9 miles	9
Liberty	7.3 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2351503. 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.