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Alfords, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sylvester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31791. The Survey maps it on the Bridgeboro quadrangle.

Alfords within Worth County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

274 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 274 fires within 5 miles of Alfords between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,366 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 35 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 burning176
Arson/incendiarism35
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Equipment and vehicle use13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural10
Smoking3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3

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
7 September 1999Natural8.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WORTH-011
30 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WORTH-010
27 September 2011Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WORTH-009
20 September 1997Natural8.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2010Debris and open burning6.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WORTH-003
13 September 1997Arson/incendiarism7.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WORTH005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Worth County

Storms near this place

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Alfords in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
January 2017FloodAlfords$20,000Heavy rainfall fell over a 2 day period across Worth county, resulting in Porters Corner Road washing out between Ben Peavy Road and Gwines Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindAlfords$1,000A power line was blown down near the intersection of Spring Flats Road and Greenleaf Road.
June 2023Flash FloodAlfords-Flooding was reported at 1800 S County Line Road.
June 2023Flash FloodAlfords-Flooding was reported on Cane Mill Road.
September 2020Flash FloodAlfords-The dirt portion of Poplar Road near Porters Corner Road was reported to have a washout.
April 2019Thunderstorm WindAlfords-A tree was blown down on Highway 112 and McCarty Road.
January 2017HailAlfords-Quarter size hail was reported on South County Line Road.
March 2012HailAlfords-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Worth 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
Parkerville1.6 miles10
Indian Cove (historical)2.2 miles10
Gordy2.6 miles10
Gintown (historical)3.1 miles10
Livingston3.3 miles10
Crestwood3.4 miles10
Groveland Estates3.9 miles10
Deerfield Farm Estates4.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331019. 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.