Tetlow, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Odum census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31555. The Survey maps it on the Odum quadrangle.

Tetlow within Wayne County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Odum quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

256 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 256 fires within 5 miles of Tetlow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,962 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 45 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	141
Arson/incendiarism	45
Natural	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
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
8 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WAYNE-016
29 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020WAYNE016
24 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-WAYNE-020
24 September 1996	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wayne 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
Brentwood	2.5 miles	8
Odum	2.5 miles	8
Burnett	4.4 miles	14
Piney Grove	4.8 miles	8
Madray Springs	6.2 miles	14
Redland	6.8 miles	14
Drawdy	8.9 miles	14
K'Ville	9.0 miles	8

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 Q122597383

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 333209. 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.