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Sunshine Acres, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Columbus North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31909. It stands on Cooper Branch. The Survey maps it on the Fortson quadrangle.

Sunshine Acres within Muscogee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 18 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.

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 Sunshine Acres between 1992 and 2019, burning about 436 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 45 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
Arson/incendiarism45
Debris and open burning15
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2016Debris and open burning20 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-MUSCOGEE-002
3 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minor9.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MUSCOGEE-001
2 September 1997Debris and open burning3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1995Arson/incendiarism10.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2010Smoking2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HARRIS-007
28 August 1993Arson/incendiarism4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Muscogee County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Sunshine Acres: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barin QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Columbus QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Lyn Hills0.4 miles18
Candlestick0.5 miles18
Windsor Park0.5 miles18
Hillbrook Estates0.6 miles18
Allendale0.6 miles18
Lincoln Hills0.7 miles18
Spring Lake0.8 miles18
Cheshire Valley0.8 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 357483. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.