Albaugh, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fort Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31030. The Survey maps it on the Fort Valley East quadrangle.

Albaugh within Peach County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1956 USGS Fort Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Fort Valley East quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

333 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 333 fires within 5 miles of Albaugh between 1992 and 2020, burning about 673 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 37 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	197
Equipment and vehicle use	37
Arson/incendiarism	37
Misuse of fire by a minor	19
Natural	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-PEACH-007
6 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-PEACH-006
30 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-PEACH-008
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Peach County

Storms near this place

4 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albaugh in 4 storm reports between 2017 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Albaugh	$10,000	Ten trees and numerous power lines were downed along Buckeye Road.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Albaugh	$10,000	Public reported multiple pecan trees down just south of Hwy 96 between Fort Valley and Perry. Time estimated from radar.
January 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Albaugh	$10,000	A National Weather Service survey team found that a tornado began in southeast Peach County around the intersection of Harper Road and Andel Road just west of the Perry-Houston County Airport. The tornado moved east for around 2.5 miles before crossing into Houston County along Buckeye Road. This tornado was rated EF0 along this portion of its path with maximum wind speeds of 80 MPH and mainly downed trees and power lines, however some minor damage to shingles on homes was noted in this area. The tornado would eventually travel over 13 miles across portions of Peach and Houston Counties. [01/21/17: Tornado #12, County #1/4, EF0, Peach-Houston-Peach-Houston, 2017:013].
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Albaugh	$4,000	The Peach County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down between Fort Valley and Perry along Bleckley, Irby and Holland Roads.

Every storm recorded in Peach 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
Edgewood	1.1 miles	10
Miami Valley	1.6 miles	10
Bryn Mawr	1.7 miles	10
Oak Grove	2.1 miles	10
Ohio	2.6 miles	10
Fagan	2.7 miles	10
Peach Valley	2.7 miles	11
Indian Oaks	2.8 miles	11

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 Q122595436

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 1730638. 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.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.