Barney, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Barney census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31625. The Survey maps it on the Berlin East quadrangle. It stands 239 feet above sea level.

Barney within Brooks County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Berlin East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

391 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 391 fires within 5 miles of Barney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,457 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 38 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	248
Equipment and vehicle use	41
Railroad operations and maintenance	41
Arson/incendiarism	38
Natural	10
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
9 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-COOK-009
26 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2018	Debris and open burning	3.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019BROOKS001
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BROOKS-012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brooks County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Barney: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Allen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Storms near this place

11 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barney in 11 storm reports between 2012 and 2025: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. 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
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Barney	$4,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down, mainly the northeast side of the county near Highway 133. Monetary damage was estimated.
March 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Barney	$3,000	Trees and power lines were blown down in northern Brooks county along Highway 122. Some of the downed power lines started fires.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Barney	$3,000	Trees and power lines were blown down near Barney. Monetary damage was estimated.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Barney	$2,000	A tree was blown down over power lines near the intersection of Adel Highway and Old Coffee Road.
August 2025	Flash Flood	Barney	-	Water was reported over Highway 76.
August 2024	Flash Flood	Barney	-	The Brooks county schools Facebook page reported multiple areas of localized flooding and impassable roads in the county.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Barney	-	A tree was blown down onto Cooper Road.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Barney	-	A tree was blown down on Adel Highway north of Morven.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Barney	-	A tree was blown down near Herring Road.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Barney	-	Trees were blown down near Highway 122 and 76.
December 2014	Flash Flood	Barney	-	The road department placed signs on some roads across the county due to flooding from heavy rain in a short period of time.

Every storm recorded in Brooks 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
Old Rock Hill	3.2 miles	9
New Rock Hill	3.3 miles	9
Morven	4.7 miles	7
Tallokas (historical)	5.5 miles	8
Kennedy (historical)	6.3 miles	8
Pebble Hill	7.2 miles	8
Sand Hill	7.5 miles	8
Tillman (historical)	8.6 miles	7

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 Barney	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20708715	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 310812. 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.

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.