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Apalachee, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Bostwick census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30650. It stands on Beaverdam Creek. The Survey maps it on the Apalachee quadrangle.

Apalachee within Morgan County

On record in Apalachee

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Apalachee between 1992 and 2019, burning about 676 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 19 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 burning69
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking8
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1997Smoking9.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2017Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-MORGAN-003
18 September 1998Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 1997Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2011Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MORGAN-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Apalachee: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alliston ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Apalachee in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
August 2000Thunderstorm WindApalachee$20,000The Morgan county 911 center reported that a tree fell on and damaged a mobile home in Apalachee and a power line was knocked down in Madison. Pea size hail was also observed with this thunderstorm.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindApalachee$6,000The Morgan County 911 Center reported several trees blown down along Parsonage Road just northwest of Apalachee.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindApalachee$250The Morgan County 911 center reported that one tree was blown down on U.S. Highway 441.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindApalachee$250The Morgan County 911 center reported that a tree had blown down.
April 1998HailApalachee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Shields (historical)1.9 miles11
Nolans Store4.0 miles11
Sandy Creek5.3 miles16
Bostwick5.6 miles16
Canaan6.0 miles11
Sugar Creek6.1 miles11
Smyrna6.2 miles11
Malcolms Store6.3 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 354375. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.