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Audubon, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Redbud census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30735. It stands on Jackson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Redbud quadrangle.

Audubon within Gordon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

265 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 265 fires within 5 miles of Audubon between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,032 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 91 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 burning137
Arson/incendiarism91
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural3
Smoking3

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 1993Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism15 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-GORDON-016

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gordon County

Storms near this place

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Audubon in 1 storm report in 2012: 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindAudubon$2,000The Gordon County 911 Center reported that several trees and power lines were blown down along Nesbit Loop.

Every storm recorded in Gordon 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
Buff (historical)2.2 miles18
Redbud2.3 miles18
Decora2.5 miles18
Fidelle2.6 miles18
Midway (historical)2.8 miles18
Hunts Corner2.9 miles18
Coosawattee (historical)3.1 miles18
Soapstick3.4 miles19

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 AudubonAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19865027The 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 326164. 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.