Tippetts, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hawkinsville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31036. It stands on Mile Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hawkinsville quadrangle.

Tippetts within Pulaski County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1956 USGS Cochran quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

670 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 670 fires within 5 miles of Tippetts between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,362 acres in total. 24 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 burning	472
Equipment and vehicle use	78
Arson/incendiarism	33
Natural	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Smoking	22
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Recreation and ceremony	4

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
9 September 2005	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-PULASKI-013
6 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-PULASKI-012
6 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 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 Pulaski 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
Hawkinsville	1.5 miles	11
Goose Neck	2.1 miles	8
Hartford	2.5 miles	11
Wallace	4.7 miles	8
Mobley Crossing	5.8 miles	11
Browndale	6.1 miles	10
Finleyson	9.3 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 Q122573068

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 333237. 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.