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Ashland, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sandy Cross census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30521. The Survey maps it on the Ashland quadrangle.

Ashland within Franklin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Ashland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 264 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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 burning71
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural4
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
3 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2016Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FRANKLIN-011
28 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020FRANKLIN005
22 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020FRANKLIN004
21 September 2019Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020FRANKLIN003
20 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashland in 4 storm reports between 2011 and 2014: 3 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
June 2014HailAshland-County comms reported 3/4 inch hail on Bold Springs Rd.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindAshland-Multiple trees were blown down across the county, especially the southern half.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindAshland-A tree and power lines were blown down on Bold Springs Rd.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindAshland-Multiple trees were blown down across the county. One tree fell on a house on Wesleyan St in Lavonia.

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Walnut Hill (historical)2.2 miles14
Plainview2.8 miles14
Unity3.8 miles13
Cromers5.9 miles14
Zidon (historical)6.5 miles15
Carnesville7.1 miles15
Sandy Cross7.4 miles15
Vandiver7.6 miles13

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 AshlandAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q43080443The 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 331057. 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.