Aldreds, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Louisville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30477. It stands on Big Creek. The Survey maps it on the Louisville South quadrangle.

Aldreds within Jefferson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Louisville South quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

237 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Aldreds between 1992 and 2020, burning about 649 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 6 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	122
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Natural	22
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Smoking	10
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 2013	Debris and open burning	4.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-JEFFERSON-003
30 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-JEFFERSON-010
20 September 2001	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-JEFFERSON-008
16 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-JEFFERSON-027
13 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JEFFERSON007
13 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2018	Natural	3.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019JEFFERSON004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jefferson 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
Pine Hill	0.3 miles	8
Moxley	2.1 miles	8
Louisville	3.7 miles	16
Old Town	5.1 miles	7
Wadley	5.7 miles	8
Bartow	6.5 miles	8
Almira	7.1 miles	7
Cunningham Corner	7.4 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 Q122559472

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 345685. 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.