Wheat Hill, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1942 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Savannah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31408. The Survey maps it on the Garden City quadrangle.

Wheat Hill within Chatham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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.

1942 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:62500
1947 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Garden City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1960 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000
1961 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Garden City quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Savannah quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

157 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 157 fires within 5 miles of Wheat Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 509 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 17 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	57
Debris and open burning	24
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Arson/incendiarism	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	4
Natural	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
30 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2020	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021CHATHAM001
4 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Savannah Refuges	HWY-17
11 August 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah Refuges	CHEVY VAN FIRE
9 July 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah Refuges	KANASKI FIRE
8 July 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Savannah Refuges	170 FIRE #2
24 July 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Savannah Refuges	ONSLOW
19 July 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Wheat Hill: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, 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.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Douglas Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	National Gypsum/ Savannah, Ga.	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Chatham City	0.4 miles	15
Garden City	0.6 miles	15
Rossignol Hill	0.8 miles	15
Woodville	1.1 miles	15
Central Junction	1.2 miles	15
Sharon Park	1.3 miles	15
Woodlawn Terrace	1.5 miles	15
Telfair Junction	1.9 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333402. 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.