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Welwood, Georgia

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

Welwood within Chatham County

On record in Welwood

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 2 records

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

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

83 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 83 fires within 5 miles of Welwood between 1992 and 2017, burning about 452 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 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 burning24
Arson/incendiarism22
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use1
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
2 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 August 2012Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-CHATHAM-003
3 August 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHATHAM-002
26 July 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2000Recreation and ceremony6.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CHATHAM-006
4 June 1996Debris and open burning4.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Windsor Forest0.5 miles17
Nicholsonville0.7 miles17
Colonial Oaks0.8 miles17
Vernonburg0.9 miles15
Berkshire Woods1.1 miles17
Cedar Grove1.1 miles17
Tranquilla Woods1.2 miles17
Mount Herman1.2 miles17

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 Q122556126The 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 1694705. 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.