West Point, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Lizella census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31052. The Survey maps it on the Lizella quadrangle.

West Point within Bibb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1956 USGS Bolingbroke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Lizella quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

195 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 195 fires within 5 miles of West Point between 1992 and 2020, burning about 707 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 30 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	108
Arson/incendiarism	30
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	4

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
7 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-CRAWFORD-011
23 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BIBB-003
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	7.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020CRAWFORD003
21 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BIBB-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb 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
Phelps Estates	0.5 miles	11
Blanton Acres	0.6 miles	11
Shadowood	0.9 miles	11
Lizella	1.1 miles	11
Sofkee Estates	1.3 miles	11
Dogwood Plantation	2.4 miles	11
Pineworth by the Lake	2.8 miles	11
Rogers Acres	2.8 miles	11

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 Q49370697

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 1672343. 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.