Sun Hill, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Jesup census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31546. The Survey maps it on the McKinnon quadrangle.

Sun Hill within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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.

1918 USGS Hortense quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1944 USGS Hortense quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Mc Kinnon quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
1993 USGS Mc Kinnon quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

164 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Sun Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,971 acres in total. 52 started naturally. 27 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
Natural	52
Debris and open burning	49
Arson/incendiarism	27
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	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
27 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1996	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2007	Natural	23 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2007	Natural	260 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2006	Natural	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2006	Natural	25 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2006	Natural	22 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2011	Natural	12 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-WAYNE-007

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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
Broadhurst	1.6 miles	15
McKinnon	1.8 miles	15
O Neal	3.6 miles	15
Manningtown	4.2 miles	16
Screven	5.6 miles	8
Leake	6.2 miles	14
Slover	7.1 miles	14
Gardi	8.9 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333161. 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.