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Baileys Park, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cochran census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31014. It stands on Brushy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Empire quadrangle.

Baileys Park within Bleckley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

627 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 627 fires within 5 miles of Baileys Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,142 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 30 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 burning452
Equipment and vehicle use44
Arson/incendiarism30
Smoking21
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Natural19
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony12

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 2000Debris and open burning2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-PULASKI-009
8 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2009Debris and open burning5.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2008Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DODGE016
30 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-DODGE-020
30 September 2006Debris and open burning5.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bleckley County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baileys Park in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2020: 2 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 WindBaileys Park$2,000The Bleckley County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down onto a power line in the 600 block of Highway 257.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindBaileys Park$250The Bleckley County 911 center reported a tree down on Route 257.

Every storm recorded in Bleckley 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
Frazier3.7 miles10
Cochran5.2 miles10
Paulk5.8 miles10
Porter7.4 miles10
Coley8.3 miles10
McGriff (historical)9.0 miles10
Royal9.4 miles10
Five Points10.0 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 Q122597271The 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 331078. 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.