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Wymberly-On-The-Marsh, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the St. Simons census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31522. It lies near Ledbetter Island. The Survey maps it on the Brunswick East quadrangle.

Wymberly-On-The-Marsh within Glynn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Wymberly-On-The-Marsh between 1994 and 2020, burning about 69 acres in total. 7 started naturally. None was 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 burning8
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor3
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
24 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-GLYNN-002
3 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 July 2000Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-GLYNN-008
14 July 2000Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-GLYNN-007
28 June 2006Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 June 1998Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 June 1998Natural48 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 May 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glynn County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wymberly-On-The-Marsh: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
German Village Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Glynn 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
El Dorado0.2 miles17
Devenwood0.2 miles17
Silver Lake0.3 miles17
Youngwood0.6 miles17
Oglethorpe Park0.7 miles17
Blackbanks0.7 miles17
Central Park0.7 miles17
Ebo Landing0.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671609. 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.