Terrace, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Doerun census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31744. The Survey maps it on the Doerun quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Terrace within Colquitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1956 USGS Doerun quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Doerun quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

181 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 181 fires within 5 miles of Terrace (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 806 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 23 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	119
Arson/incendiarism	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
3 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2019	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MITCHELL006
17 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2011	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-COLQUITT-017

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colquitt 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
Ticknor	4.0 miles	9
Doerun	4.6 miles	9
Minnesota	4.8 miles	9
Hartsfield	5.5 miles	8
Sigsbee	7.6 miles	10
Bay	8.0 miles	8
Funston	9.3 miles	9
New Elm	9.5 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 344023. 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.