BlockVickers Crossing, Georgia
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Fargo census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31631. The Survey maps it on the Fargo quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1967 USGS Fargo quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1980 USGS Okefenokee Swamp quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
67 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Vickers Crossing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,766 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 28 |
| Debris and open burning | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 July 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2013-CLINCH-001 |
| 9 July 1994 | Natural | 3.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 July 1994 | Natural | 31 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 31 July 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 July 2007 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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 Q122595094 | 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 333328. 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.