Whitworth, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1985. It stands in the Lavonia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30553. It stands on Little Crawford Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lavonia quadrangle.

Whitworth within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1891 USGS Carnesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Lavonia quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1985 USGS Lavonia quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

252 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Whitworth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 381 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 23 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	152
Equipment and vehicle use	27
Arson/incendiarism	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Smoking	9
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	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 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-FRANKLIN-006
5 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020FRANKLIN007
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-012
28 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-FRANKLIN-002
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-010
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	South Carolina Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin 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
Gumlog	0.5 miles	15
Poplar Grove	2.4 miles	18
Lavonia	3.4 miles	15
Fairview	6.3 miles	15
Salubrity (historical)	7.8 miles	15
Parhams	8.7 miles	15
Red Hill	9.4 miles	13
Vandiver	10.1 miles	13

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 Q122541652

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 326591. 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.