Zirkle, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Patterson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31557. It stands on Otter Creek. The Survey maps it on the Patterson SE quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Zirkle 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 Patterson SE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

199 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 199 fires within 5 miles of Zirkle (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,379 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 44 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	96
Arson/incendiarism	44
Natural	30
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1

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
9 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1998	Debris and open burning	26 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-PIERCE-003
5 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020PIERCE005
2 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-PIERCE-009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire 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
Otter Creek	5.1 miles	8
Offerman	5.2 miles	8
Patterson	5.5 miles	7
Owen	7.7 miles	8
Aspinwall	8.8 miles	7
Blackshear	10.9 miles	8
Bristol	11.1 miles	7
Walkersville	12.5 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 349109. 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.