Woodcrest, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Macon West census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31210. The Survey maps it on the Macon NW quadrangle.

Woodcrest within Bibb County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1956 USGS Macon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Macon NW quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

208 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Woodcrest between 1992 and 2019, burning about 630 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 21 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	124
Arson/incendiarism	21
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	13
Recreation and ceremony	9
Natural	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
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	8.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BIBB001
23 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-MONROE-004
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb 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
Rivoli Plantation	0.5 miles	12
Billingwood	1.2 miles	12
Whitehouse Plantation	1.2 miles	12
Wesleyan Hills	1.3 miles	12
Wesleyan Estates	1.5 miles	12
Lorane	1.7 miles	12
Castlegate	1.8 miles	12
Glenwood Forest	2.0 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672362. 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.