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Attica, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Jefferson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30607. The Survey maps it on the Nicholson quadrangle.

Attica within Jackson 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Attica between 1992 and 2020, burning about 346 acres in total. 2 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 burning60
Arson/incendiarism19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-JACKSON-005
16 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use4.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-JACKSON-002
13 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CLARKE-004
1 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-JACKSON-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Attica in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 1 hail, 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindAttica$15,000The public reported several large pecan trees blown down.
June 1999HailAttica-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Talassee (historical)1.0 miles12
Clarksboro1.6 miles14
Red Stone3.0 miles12
Center4.6 miles14
Arcade5.5 miles12
Brockton7.0 miles14
Nicholson7.3 miles14
Jefferson8.0 miles12

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 AtticaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888610The 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 326162. 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.