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Wymberly on the Marsh, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31406. It stands on Freedom Creek. The Survey maps it on the Isle of Hope quadrangle.

Wymberly on the Marsh within Chatham County

On record in Wymberly on the Marsh

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 2 records

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

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.

Fires near this place

82 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 82 fires within 5 miles of Wymberly on the Marsh between 1992 and 2017, burning about 350 acres in total. 2 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 burning24
Arson/incendiarism21
Recreation and ceremony13
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Smoking8
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHATHAM-002
26 July 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 July 1993Recreation and ceremony2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 June 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Isle of Hope0.3 miles15
Bakers Crossing0.4 miles15
Wormsloe0.6 miles15
Grimball Park0.6 miles15
Wymberly0.6 miles15
Parkersburg0.6 miles15
Sandfly0.7 miles15
Harrock Hall0.7 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1694730. 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.