Woffords Settlement, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Baldwin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30511. It stands on Wofford Creek. The Survey maps it on the Baldwin quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Woffords Settlement within Banks County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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 Gainesville quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Baldwin quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

209 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 209 fires within 5 miles of Woffords Settlement (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 584 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 38 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	104
Arson/incendiarism	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Natural	7
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BANKS-001
12 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HABERSHAM-013
31 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 August 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Banks County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Woffords Settlement (historical): 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. 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
	Homer Plant No. 2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	J.P.Fort Property	Manganese	Past Producer	Residual

Every working recorded in Banks 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
Nancytown (historical)	1.3 miles	14
Hollingsworth	2.9 miles	14
Alto	3.9 miles	14
Pruitt	5.0 miles	14
Uvena	5.2 miles	14
Pinefield Crossroads	5.2 miles	14
Odis Crossroads	8.2 miles	14
Mount Pleasant	8.4 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 349305. 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.