Willow Lake, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Marshallville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31030. The Survey maps it on the Marshallville quadrangle.

Willow Lake within Macon County

On record in Willow Lake

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.

Willow Lakelisted 1980 · 0.1 miles away
Wilkes Knob Plantationlisted 1980 · 0.9 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Marshallville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

223 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Willow Lake between 1992 and 2019, burning about 689 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 24 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	120
Arson/incendiarism	24
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Natural	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Recreation and ceremony	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	6
Smoking	5

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 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MACON-005
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Debris and open burning	3.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-PEACH-010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macon 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
Saint Louis	1.5 miles	9
Marshallville	2.9 miles	9
Winchester	5.3 miles	9
Lowes Crossing	7.5 miles	9
Barrons Lane	9.4 miles	8
Hicks	10.9 miles	8
Four Points	12.1 miles	8
Garden Valley	12.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1730637. 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.