Windsor Forest, Georgia
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Savannah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31419. It stands on Haneys Creek. The Survey maps it on the Burroughs quadrangle.
On record in Windsor Forest
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.
- Vernonburg Historic Districtlisted 2000 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1944 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
- 1945 USGS Ossabaw Island quadrangle1:62500
- 1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Burroughs quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1979 USGS Burroughs quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1981 USGS Jesup quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
91 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Windsor Forest between 1992 and 2017, burning about 483 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 22 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 | 29 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 August 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2013-CHATHAM-003 |
| 3 August 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-CHATHAM-002 |
| 26 July 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 July 2000 | Recreation and ceremony | 6.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-CHATHAM-006 |
| 4 June 1996 | Debris and open burning | 4.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Windsor Forest in 2 storm reports in 1993: 2 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1993 | Hail | Windsor Forest | - | no account filed |
| May 1993 | Hail | Windsor Forest | - | no account filed |
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.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Welwood | 0.5 miles | 17 | |
| White Bluff | 0.8 miles | 17 | |
| Wilshire | 0.9 miles | 17 | |
| Tranquilla Woods | 0.9 miles | 17 | |
| Vernonburg | 1.0 miles | 15 | |
| Rivers End | 1.1 miles | 15 | |
| Nicholsonville | 1.2 miles | 17 | |
| Leedsgate | 1.2 miles | 17 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333445. 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.









