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Telfair Junction, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Savannah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31415. The Survey maps it on the Garden City quadrangle.

Telfair Junction within Chatham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 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.

Fires near this place

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Telfair Junction between 1992 and 2020, burning about 594 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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
Railroad operations and maintenance51
Debris and open burning30
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking4
Natural2

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
30 September 2009Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021CHATHAM001
25 August 2016Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHATHAM-004
19 July 1995Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 July 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 June 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 June 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Telfair Junction: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Douglas Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Flintkote/ Savannah, Ga.Gypsum-AnhydritePast Producer
National Gypsum/ Savannah, Ga.Gypsum-AnhydritePast Producer

Every working recorded in Chatham 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Alabama Junction0.4 miles15
Woodville0.9 miles15
Florida Junction1.1 miles15
Rossignol Hill1.1 miles15
Cloverdale1.2 miles15
Central Junction1.2 miles15
Tremont Park1.4 miles15
Carver Village1.5 miles17

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 Q122547813The 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 326543. 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.