Youman, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Blackshear census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31516. The Survey maps it on the Blackshear West quadrangle.

Youman within Pierce County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Blackshear West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

567 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 567 fires within 5 miles of Youman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,400 acres in total. 33 started naturally. 79 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	343
Arson/incendiarism	79
Natural	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	25
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Recreation and ceremony	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	14
Smoking	10

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
6 September 2005	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-PIERCE-015
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-PIERCE-013
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-PIERCE-015
23 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2019	Debris and open burning	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020PIERCE004
18 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Youman: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Mcneal Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Minchew Mine No. 3	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Minchew Sand Co Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pafford Pit No. 2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
Homestead	1.6 miles	8
Blackshear	3.2 miles	8
Owen	6.7 miles	8
Otter Creek	7.7 miles	8
Walkersville	9.3 miles	7
Patterson	10.7 miles	7
Offerman	12.8 miles	8
Aspinwall	12.8 miles	7

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122598669

The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 349108. 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.