Tibet, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1943 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ludowici South census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31316. The Survey maps it on the Townsend quadrangle. It stands 56 feet above sea level. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Tibet within Long County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1943 USGS Ludowici quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Townsend quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

179 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 179 fires within 5 miles of Tibet (historical) between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,075 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 105 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
Arson/incendiarism	105
Debris and open burning	37
Natural	19
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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 2017	Recreation and ceremony	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-LONG-001
30 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-MCINTOSH-020
9 August 2014	Natural	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-LONG-004
9 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MCINTOSH-003
5 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2006	Natural	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2011	Natural	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-LONG-014
21 August 2011	Natural	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-LONG-012

Every fire recorded in Long 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
Brewer (historical)	5.9 miles	13
Ludowici	9.6 miles	13
Aimar	9.7 miles	17
Elim	12.5 miles	17
Wefanie	15.4 miles	16
Roderick (historical)	16.8 miles	16
Smiley Crossroads	18.8 miles	16
Donald	19.1 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.

Wikipedia article on Tibet (historical)	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q95984225	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 348281. 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.