Wilmington, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1980. It stands in the Tybee Island-Wilmington Island census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31410. It stands on Sheepshead Creek. The Survey maps it on the Wassaw Sound quadrangle.

Wilmington within Chatham County

On record in Wilmington

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 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Eureka Club-Farr's Pointlisted 2009 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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.

1920 USGS Wassaw Sound quadrangle1:62500
1945 USGS Wassaw Sound quadrangle1:62500
1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Wassaw Sound quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Wassaw Sound quadrangle1:24000
1980 USGS Wassaw Sound quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Wilmington between 1992 and 2017, burning about 194 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 11 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
Recreation and ceremony	12
Arson/incendiarism	11
Smoking	9
Debris and open burning	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	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
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 July 1994	Natural	1.5 acres	Wassaw National Wildlife Refuge	TRUST
15 July 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 July 1993	Recreation and ceremony	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 June 1999	Smoking	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

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wilmington: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite. 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
	Savannah Deposit	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Fluorine-Fluorite	Prospect	1966

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
Wilmington Park	0.9 miles	15
Wilmington Island	1.9 miles	17
Turners Rock	2.2 miles	17
Woodridge Estates	2.5 miles	17
Parkersburg	2.9 miles	15
The Landings	2.9 miles	15
Harbor Creek	3.2 miles	17
Golden Isles	3.4 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1694716. 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.