Zion, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Altamaha River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31513. The Survey maps it on the Altamaha SW quadrangle.

Zion within Appling County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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
1970 USGS Altamaha SW quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Hazlehurst quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

186 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Zion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,035 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 7 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	126
Natural	19
Smoking	11
Arson/incendiarism	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Recreation and ceremony	4

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 2009	Debris and open burning	20 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020APPLING025
23 September 1996	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020APPLING022
21 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2011	Smoking	8.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-APPLING-033
15 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Appling 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
Eason Bluff	2.5 miles	7
Bethel	3.3 miles	7
Davis	4.7 miles	8
McTier	5.3 miles	7
Spring Branch	9.2 miles	8
Wheaton	9.2 miles	8
Surrency	9.7 miles	7
Warrick Homes	10.2 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333496. 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.