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Bath, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hephzibah census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30805. The Survey maps it on the Blythe quadrangle.

Bath within Richmond County

On record in Bath

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

243 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Bath between 1992 and 2020, burning about 979 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 66 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 burning113
Arson/incendiarism66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Natural10
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
8 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-RICHMOND-008
25 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BURKE-026
25 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BURKE-013
24 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020RICHMOND010
20 September 2010Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-RICHMOND-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Bath: 4 producers, 2 past producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Tappan PlaceClayPast Producer
Albion Kaolin MineKaolinProducer
Albion Kaolin Mine, Pit BKaolinProducer
Albion PitKaolinProducer1900
Gate 5 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
James PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
James Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Payton & Wren PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Richmond County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bath in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 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
April 2011Thunderstorm WindBath$18,000EM Reported numerous trees down across the western portions of the county.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindBath-Numerous trees were downed throughout the county.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindBath-County dispatch reported numerous trees down over the western half of Richmond Co GA. Time estimated.

Every storm recorded in Richmond 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
Edie (historical)2.8 miles20
Blythe3.4 miles20
Ellwood3.5 miles20
Hephzibah4.6 miles19
Olive Terrace4.9 miles20
Sand Ridge4.9 miles20
Gordon Terrace5.2 miles20
Melton5.3 miles19

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 BathAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q43080560The 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 331103. 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.