Warrick Homes, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Baxley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31513. The Survey maps it on the Baxley quadrangle.

Warrick Homes within Appling County

On record in Warrick Homes

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 4 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

C. W. Deen Houselisted 1982 · 0.6 miles away
United States Post Office-Baxley, Georgialisted 2000 · 0.8 miles away
Appling County Courthouselisted 1980 · 0.8 miles away
Citizens Banking Companylisted 1985 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1970 USGS Baxley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

659 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 659 fires within 5 miles of Warrick Homes between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,494 acres in total. 28 started naturally. 37 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	420
Misuse of fire by a minor	91
Arson/incendiarism	37
Smoking	32
Natural	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Recreation and ceremony	16
Equipment and vehicle use	11

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 2011	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-APPLING-026
7 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020APPLING013
7 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020APPLING012
4 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-APPLING-006
4 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-APPLING-029

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Appling 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
Clay Homes	0.4 miles	8
Cook Heights	0.7 miles	8
Baker Homes	0.7 miles	8
Baxley	0.8 miles	8
Speer Homes	1.3 miles	8
Bassville	1.4 miles	8
Holt Homes	1.6 miles	8
Shady Acres	2.4 miles	8

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 Q122566299

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 349217. 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.