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Barkers Crossroads, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Centralhatchee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30217. It stands on Lizzies Branch. The Survey maps it on the Frolona quadrangle.

Barkers Crossroads within Heard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

173 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Barkers Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,255 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 15 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 burning104
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use14
Smoking14
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural3

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 1995Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Arson/incendiarism22 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CARROLL-013
2 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HEARD-006
14 September 1997Smoking2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Heard County

Storms near this place

3 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barkers Crossroads in 3 storm reports between 2016 and 2025: 3 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBarkers Crossroads$60,000Tree down along dukes ro northwest of centralhatchee.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindBarkers Crossroads$5,000The Heard County Sheriff's Office reported several trees down across the county including on Notnomis Road and Welcome Road in the Centralhatchee area and on Jim T Mickel Road in Texas.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindBarkers Crossroads$1,000Report of a tree down along armstrong mill rd .

Every storm recorded in Heard 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
Unity1.4 miles11
Simpson1.8 miles11
Rockalo1.8 miles11
Hyatt2.1 miles11
Roosterville2.1 miles11
Elery2.4 miles11
Mahailey Crossroads2.7 miles11
Yates Crossroads3.3 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 310800. 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.