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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 10 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1956 USGS Cochran quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1974 USGS Empire quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
- 1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
627 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 452 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 44 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 30 |
| Smoking | 21 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 21 |
| Natural | 19 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 2.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2001-PULASKI-009 |
| 8 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | 5.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020DODGE016 |
| 30 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-DODGE-020 |
| 30 September 2006 | Debris and open burning | 5.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2015Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baileys Park | $2,000 | The Bleckley County Emergency Manager reported a tree blown down onto a power line in the 600 block of Highway 257. |
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Baileys Park | $250 | The Bleckley County 911 center reported a tree down on Route 257. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Frazier | 3.7 miles | 10 | |
| Cochran | 5.2 miles | 10 | |
| Paulk | 5.8 miles | 10 | |
| Porter | 7.4 miles | 10 | |
| Coley | 8.3 miles | 10 | |
| McGriff (historical) | 9.0 miles | 10 | |
| Royal | 9.4 miles | 10 | |
| Five Points | 10.0 miles | 10 |
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 Q122597271 | The 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.







