Sussex Commons, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Statesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30458. The Survey maps it on the Statesboro quadrangle.

Sussex Commons within Bulloch County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1920 USGS Statesboro quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1943 USGS Statesboro 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 Statesboro quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000
1993 USGS Statesboro quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

305 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 305 fires within 5 miles of Sussex Commons between 1992 and 2020, burning about 755 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 26 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	200
Arson/incendiarism	26
Misuse of fire by a minor	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Natural	14
Recreation and ceremony	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-BULLOCH-003
24 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021BULLOCH007
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BULLOCH012
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BULLOCH-008
22 September 2004	Smoking	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BULLOCH-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bulloch 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
Georgia Southern	0.2 miles	17
Stadium Walk	0.4 miles	17
Sherwood Forest	0.4 miles	17
Stadium Club	0.5 miles	17
Eagle Court	0.5 miles	17
Greenbriar	0.6 miles	17
Olde Towne	1.0 miles	17
Pine Cove	1.1 miles	17

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122571094

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 350467. 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.