Tahoma, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hephzibah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30906. It stands on Chicken Branch. The Survey maps it on the Mechanic Hill quadrangle.

Tahoma within Richmond County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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.

1921 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500, 5 printings
1943 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:62500
1943 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:125000
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Mechanic Hill quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Tahoma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 828 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 52 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	58
Arson/incendiarism	52
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
14 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-RICHMOND-002
11 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-RICHMOND-018
11 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-RICHMOND-019
11 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-RICHMOND-007
10 September 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
31 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-RICHMOND-006
3 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-RICHMOND-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richmond 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 Tahoma: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Cobalt, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Knox-Rivers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
	Silver Bluff	Cobalt, Manganese	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Richmond 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
Mechanic Hill	1.8 miles	20
Nixon	2.4 miles	20
Walkinshaw	2.9 miles	20
Goshen Plantation	3.0 miles	20
McBean	4.7 miles	16
Northview	6.4 miles	20
Westover	6.7 miles	21
Gracewood	7.0 miles	19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326540. 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.