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Armena, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Leesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31763. The Survey maps it on the Sasser quadrangle.

Armena within Lee 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

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Armena between 1992 and 2020, burning about 638 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 17 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 burning97
Equipment and vehicle use19
Arson/incendiarism17
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking2

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
6 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning6.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020LEE007
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020LEE004
22 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minor4.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1995Smoking5.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-LEE-005
29 August 2016Debris and open burning2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TERRELL-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Armena: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Leesburg Sand Co MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

7 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Armena in 7 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 4 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2025Flash FloodArmena$50,000Several inches of water was reported in some homes along Red Tip Lane, Wax Myrtle Dr, Ivy Lane, and Loblolly Lane.
July 2015LightningArmena$50,000Lightning started a house fire and caused damage on Westerlee Drive in Lee county via WALB-TV. Damage was estimated.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindArmena$2,000Trees were blown down on Sasser Road.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindArmena-A tree was blown down in the 100 block of Pebble Ridge Dr.
September 2024Flash FloodArmena-Three homes near Wiregrass and Ivy Lane in extreme southwestern Lee county had up to 1 foot of water get inside the structures due to flash flooding.
December 2018Flash FloodArmena-Flash flooding occurred on Ivey Green Trail and affected structures.
March 2015Flash FloodArmena-Dispatch reported that Highway 32 West at Armena Road was closed briefly due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Oakland1.4 miles10
Byne Crossroads3.6 miles10
Palmyra5.6 miles10
Century6.5 miles10
Jordan Place6.6 miles9
Forrester6.8 miles10
Leesburg7.0 miles10
Nutview (historical)9.7 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122544660The 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 326160. 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.