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Walkinshaw, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Hephzibah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30906. It stands on Bridge Creek. The Survey maps it on the Mechanic Hill quadrangle.

Walkinshaw within Richmond County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 20 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

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Walkinshaw between 1992 and 2020, burning about 888 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 34 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 burning60
Arson/incendiarism34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Equipment and vehicle use5
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
14 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-RICHMOND-007
31 August 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-RICHMOND-006
18 August 2011Natural8.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BURKE-013
11 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 July 2011Misuse of fire by a minor1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-RICHMOND-001
5 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-RICHMOND-005
5 July 2000Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-RICHMOND-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richmond 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 Walkinshaw: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Cobalt, Manganese. 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
Silver BluffCobalt, ManganeseOccurrence

Every working recorded in Richmond 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
Tahoma2.9 miles20
Mechanic Hill3.7 miles20
McBean3.8 miles16
Nixon5.3 miles20
Goshen Plantation5.5 miles20
Northview9.3 miles20
Westover9.6 miles21
DeBruce9.7 miles19

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 Q122589157The 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 333349. 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.