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Belfast, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Richmond Hill census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31324. It stands on Jerico River. The Survey maps it on the Limerick SE quadrangle.

Belfast within Bryan County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 17 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

255 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 255 fires within 5 miles of Belfast between 1992 and 2020, burning about 908 acres in total. 5 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 burning117
Arson/incendiarism66
Equipment and vehicle use25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural5
Smoking3

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
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Debris and open burning6.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1992Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-LIBERTY-008
15 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1999Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bryan County

Storms near this place

6 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Belfast in 6 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail. 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
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBelfast-The media reported vinyl ceiling material blown off a porch roof along Georgia Highway 144 near Charlies Road.
June 2015HailBelfast-The public reported dime to nickel size hail.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindBelfast-The Bryan County Dispatch reported a tree down near the intersection of Highway 144 and Strathy Hall Road.
April 2011HailBelfast-The public reported ping pong size hail along Charlies Road near Rabbit Hill.
April 2011HailBelfast-A trained spotter reported penny to quarter size hail along highway 144 near Rabbit Hill.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindBelfast-Several large trees down.

Every storm recorded in Bryan 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
Keller2.4 miles17
Buckhead2.7 miles17
Sweet Hill3.1 miles15
Oak Level4.1 miles15
Fancy Hall4.6 miles15
Myrtle Grove4.8 miles17
Port Royal5.5 miles18
Rabbit Hill5.8 miles18

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 BelfastAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q29093155The 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 311040. 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.