West Town, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the West Dougherty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31707. The Survey maps it on the Albany West quadrangle.

West Town within Dougherty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Albany West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Albany West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

307 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 307 fires within 5 miles of West Town between 1992 and 2019, burning about 839 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 88 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	116
Arson/incendiarism	88
Misuse of fire by a minor	34
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Railroad operations and maintenance	13
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4
Natural	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
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dougherty County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of West Town: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Albany Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Albany Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Oxford Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Southern Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Dougherty 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
Avalon	0.5 miles	13
Avondale	0.5 miles	13
Gordon Heights	0.5 miles	13
Country Club Estates	0.6 miles	13
Cherokee Heights	0.8 miles	13
Highland Park	0.8 miles	13
Clearview	0.9 miles	13
Avondale Acres	1.0 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671278. 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.