Wefanie, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ludowici North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31316. It stands on Fletcher Branch. The Survey maps it on the Glennville SE quadrangle.

Wefanie within Long County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

1920 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1944 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1950 USGS Glennville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Glennville SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

284 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 284 fires within 5 miles of Wefanie between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,808 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 74 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	138
Arson/incendiarism	74
Natural	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	21
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-LONG-005
30 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2010	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-LONG-004
24 September 2012	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-LONG-004
17 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-LONG-007
17 September 1997	Natural	25 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	4.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Long 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
Roderick (historical)	1.6 miles	16
Donald	3.9 miles	16
Ludowici	5.8 miles	13
Smiley Crossroads	6.9 miles	16
Beards Creek	7.5 miles	17
Elim	7.7 miles	17
Aimar	7.8 miles	17
Noble	7.9 miles	17

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 Q122543455

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 333381. 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.