Troupville, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Valdosta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31602. It stands on Little River. The Survey maps it on the Valdosta quadrangle.

Troupville within Lowndes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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
1958 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Valdosta quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

406 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 406 fires within 5 miles of Troupville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,030 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 76 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	178
Arson/incendiarism	76
Smoking	34
Equipment and vehicle use	33
Misuse of fire by a minor	26
Railroad operations and maintenance	20
Natural	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	10

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 2010	Debris and open burning	4.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-LOWNDES-006
9 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2008	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes 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
Wood Valley	0.8 miles	9
Remerton	1.5 miles	9
Dellwood	1.5 miles	9
Mederer Acres	1.8 miles	9
Provident	2.0 miles	9
Eager	2.0 miles	9
Hallmark Heights	2.1 miles	9
Pebblewood	2.3 miles	9

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 Troupville	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7846566	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 356598. 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.