Barnes Crossroads, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Warm Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30222. It stands on Handco Branch. The Survey maps it on the Warm Springs quadrangle.

Barnes Crossroads within Meriwether County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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.

1907 USGS Talbotton quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1934 USGS Warm Springs quadrangle1:62500, 7 printings
1936 USGS Warm Springs quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Warm Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Barnes Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 572 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 22 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	100
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	11
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-MERIWETHER-005
31 August 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 August 2011	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MERIWETHER-007
23 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	3.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meriwether County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Barnes Crossroads: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Cedar Rock Prospect	Granite	Occurrence
Harris City Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Snelson Mine	Mica	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Meriwether 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Harris City	1.2 miles	22
Snelsons Crossroads	1.4 miles	22
Andrews Crossroads	1.9 miles	22
Crowders Crossing	3.1 miles	22
Raleigh	3.5 miles	22
Hunters Crossroad	3.8 miles	10
McLendon Crossroads	3.8 miles	22
Greenville	4.4 miles	8

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 Q122547881

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 331092. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.