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Village Green, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pooler-Bloomingdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31419. It stands on Salt Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burroughs quadrangle.

Village Green within Chatham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

172 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Village Green between 1992 and 2020, burning about 833 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 38 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 burning66
Arson/incendiarism38
Misuse of fire by a minor24
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2006Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2012Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-CHATHAM-003
31 August 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 2016Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHATHAM-003
17 August 2002Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CHATHAM-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Village Green: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Shuman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Chatham 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Georgetown1.1 miles17
Windward1.5 miles17
Forest River Farms1.7 miles17
Grubbs2.1 miles15
Burroughs2.3 miles17
Ogeechee Farms2.6 miles18
Grove Point2.6 miles17
Windsor on the Marsh2.7 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1694698. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.