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Alexander, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Waynesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30830. The Survey maps it on the Idlewood quadrangle.

Alexander within Burke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 16 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.

Fires near this place

172 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 172 fires within 5 miles of Alexander between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,396 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 31 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 burning102
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural9
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-BURKE-003
30 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-BURKE-005
20 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019BURKE010
19 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019BURKE009
15 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-BURKE-009
13 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-BURKE-020

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burke County

Storms near this place

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alexander in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAlexander$4,000Sheriff dispatch reported several trees down around the county.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAlexander$4,000Sheriff reported trees down along the Thompson Bridge road area.
August 2015Thunderstorm WindAlexander$3,000Jefferson Electric reported power outages from large tree branches knocking out powerlines near Alexander.
March 2018HailAlexander$100Fire Dept reported nickel size hail and damage to a gutter spout at Burke Co Fire Station 10 in Alexander.
December 2021HailAlexander$10Public reported pea sized hail at a business near the town of Alexander. Time estimated.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindAlexander-Burke county EM reported trees down on powerlines along Joyner Oglesby Road. Time estimated by radar.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindAlexander-Burke County Dispatch reported a tree down blocking both lanes at Thompson Bridge Rd and Hwy 24. Time estimated based on radar.
August 2024Flash FloodAlexander-GDOT and Burke County EM reported Highway 24 between Thompson Bridge Road and the Town of Alexander had to be closed due to flooding.
March 2018Thunderstorm WindAlexander-Planters Electric Coop reported trees down on power lines just NE of the Alexander community near Gray Rd.
March 2018Thunderstorm WindAlexander-Burke Co dispatch reported downed power lines on Hwy 24 near Alexander Munnerlyn Rd.
March 2018HailAlexander-Utility worker reported quarter size hail in the Alexander community.
June 2001Thunderstorm WindAlexander-Highway dept. reported trees down in the Alexander area.

Every storm recorded in Burke 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Asbury (historical)2.6 miles16
Old Church3.6 miles16
Bill Davis (historical)3.9 miles15
Idlewood5.5 miles16
Telfair Woods5.7 miles16
Thomas Station5.8 miles16
Munnerlyn6.5 miles15
Wilsons Store7.0 miles15

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.

Wikipedia article on AlexanderAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q39050832The 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 310431. 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.