Tip Top, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Hamilton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31811. The Survey maps it on the Pine Mountain quadrangle.

Tip Top within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Pine Mountain quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

167 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 167 fires within 5 miles of Tip Top between 1992 and 2020, burning about 642 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 18 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	102
Arson/incendiarism	18
Smoking	10
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Natural	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Recreation and ceremony	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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
25 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020HARRIS003
21 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-HARRIS-004
16 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HARRIS-007
8 August 2002	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HARRIS-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris 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
Pine Mountain Valley	2.5 miles	10
Hamilton	3.2 miles	10
Champion Crossroad	3.3 miles	10
Mountainbrook	3.9 miles	10
Smiths Crossroads	4.2 miles	11
Pine Mountain	4.3 miles	10
Hopewell	4.7 miles	11
Beech Springs	4.7 miles	11

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 Q31593354

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 333236. 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.