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Telfair Woods, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Greens Cut census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30830. The Survey maps it on the Alexander quadrangle.

Telfair Woods within Burke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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

273 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 273 fires within 5 miles of Telfair Woods between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,095 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 74 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 burning150
Arson/incendiarism74
Natural18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony1

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
8 September 2018Debris and open burning4.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019BURKE006
5 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BURKE-007
4 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-BURKE-003
24 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019BURKE010
18 September 2015Natural1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-BURKE-007
14 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BURKE-008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burke 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
Shell Bluff5.4 miles16
Hancock Landing5.5 miles17
Alexander5.7 miles16
Bill Davis (historical)6.7 miles15
Old Church6.9 miles16
Girard7.0 miles17
Asbury (historical)7.3 miles16
Sardis8.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333201. 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.