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Windsor Forest, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Warner Robins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31088. It stands on Bay Gall Creek. The Survey maps it on the Warner Robins SE quadrangle.

Windsor Forest within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

Fires near this place

320 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 320 fires within 5 miles of Windsor Forest between 1992 and 2019, burning about 771 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 56 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 burning112
Misuse of fire by a minor76
Arson/incendiarism56
Equipment and vehicle use21
Recreation and ceremony15
Smoking14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural11
Railroad operations and maintenance3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Creekside0.4 miles11
Hickory Woods0.7 miles11
Kings Crossing0.9 miles11
South Oaks1.0 miles12
Idlewood Acres1.1 miles12
Russell Glen1.4 miles12
Peachtree Estates1.4 miles12
Redding1.5 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671799. 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.