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Allen, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Bogart census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30622. The Survey maps it on the Statham quadrangle.

Allen within Oconee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 18 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Allen between 1992 and 2020, burning about 307 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 18 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 burning46
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Smoking9
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Natural3

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
8 September 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BARROW-004
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-JACKSON-005
12 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1999Recreation and ceremony6.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 August 1998Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Oconee County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Allen in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2021Thunderstorm WindAllen$24,000The Oconee County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees blown down in the Rays Church Road area between Highway 53 and Maxey Road. A GDOT sensor on Highway 78 recorded a wind gust of 61 MPH.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindAllen$2,000The Oconee County 911 Center reported that a couple of trees and power lines were down in the southeast part of the county, southeast of Watkinsville.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindAllen-Report of a tree down on Hwy 78 at Pete Dickens Rd.

Every storm recorded in Oconee 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
Pine Ridge0.4 miles18
Oak Grove0.5 miles18
Bogart0.5 miles18
Osceola Village0.7 miles18
Deerwood Estates0.8 miles18
Greene0.9 miles18
Englewood1.2 miles18
Fernwood1.5 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356681. 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.