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Archery, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Preston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31780. It stands on Rabbit Branch. The Survey maps it on the Plains quadrangle. It stands 476 feet above sea level.

Archery within Webster County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

Fires near this place

99 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Archery between 1993 and 2020, burning about 375 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 5 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 burning63
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-SUMTER-009
5 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-WEBSTER-001
16 September 1999Debris and open burning3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2000Debris and open burning2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-WEBSTER-006
8 August 2020Natural2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021WEBSTER001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Webster County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Archery in 1 storm report in 2024: 1 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindArchery$2,000Trees down at intersection of US-280 and Bishop Johnson Circle Road.

Every storm recorded in Webster 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
Dumas2.4 miles8
Gooseberry (historical)3.5 miles7
Centerpoint5.2 miles7
Preston5.4 miles7
Leveretts8.7 miles7
Weston9.5 miles7
Kimbrough10.8 miles8

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 ArcheryAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888606The 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 326158. 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.