Thomas Station, Georgia

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

Thomas Station 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.

1920 USGS Greens Cut quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1943 USGS Augusta East quadrangle1:125000
1943 USGS Greens Cut quadrangle1:62500
1954 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1957 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1962 USGS Augusta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Idlewood quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1982 USGS Barnwell quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

215 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Thomas Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,074 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 25 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	137
Arson/incendiarism	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Smoking	9
Equipment and vehicle use	7
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
4 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021BURKE008
3 September 2020	Debris and open burning	5.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021BURKE006
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BURKE009
25 September 2010	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BURKE-012
24 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2001	Smoking	3.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-BURKE-013
2 September 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BURKE-018

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Idlewood	0.3 miles	16
Hatchers Store	2.7 miles	15
Asbury (historical)	3.2 miles	16
Old Church	3.2 miles	16
Wilsons Store	4.4 miles	15
Munnerlyn	4.6 miles	15
Waynesboro	5.3 miles	15
Alexander	5.8 miles	16

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 Q122545674

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 348071. 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.