Touraine, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Coolidge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31757. The Survey maps it on the Merrillville quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Touraine within Thomas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1954 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Thomasville quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1975 USGS Merrillville quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Merrillville quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

395 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 395 fires within 5 miles of Touraine (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,132 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 42 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	280
Arson/incendiarism	42
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Recreation and ceremony	10
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	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
9 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020THOMAS010
3 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-THOMAS-010
24 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020THOMAS006
22 September 1995	Debris and open burning	29 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 1995	Debris and open burning	6.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1995	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Merrillville	1.5 miles	8
Dillon	2.0 miles	8
Fredonia	3.5 miles	8
Patten	3.8 miles	7
Five Forks	5.7 miles	7
Coolidge	5.9 miles	9
Pasco	6.0 miles	8
Dawesville	6.6 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 343849. 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.