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Theodore Heights, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Thomasville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31792. It stands on Wards Creek. The Survey maps it on the Thomasville quadrangle.

Theodore Heights within Thomas County

On record in Theodore Heights

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 14 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Every listing in Thomas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

202 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 202 fires within 5 miles of Theodore Heights between 1992 and 2018, burning about 904 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 33 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 burning127
Arson/incendiarism33
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural1

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
9 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Arson/incendiarism2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2010Debris and open burning3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-THOMAS-006
5 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2006Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thomas 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
Fletcherville0.5 miles8
Thomasville0.9 miles8
Dewey City1.0 miles8
Homestead Park1.2 miles8
McLoughlin Heights1.3 miles8
Booker Heights1.4 miles8
Pebble Hill2.0 miles12
Beverly (historical)3.2 miles8

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 Q122563711The 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 343834. 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.