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Berner, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Forsyth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31029. It stands on Lee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berner quadrangle.

Berner within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

216 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Berner between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,148 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 25 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 burning114
Arson/incendiarism25
Equipment and vehicle use16
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony11
Smoking11
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

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 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019MONROE001
9 August 2000Natural17 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-MONROE-012
7 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1997Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2011Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MONROE-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Berner: 7 prospects, 4 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Garnet, Feldspar, Vermiculite. 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
Athen ProspectVermiculite, MicaProspect
Feldspar Corp Jasper Quarry AFeldsparPast Producer
Owl Hollow ProspectGarnetProspect
A T Redding ProspectsMicaProspect
Arnall ProspectMicaOccurrence
Bell Cochran ProspectMicaProspect
C M Sutton ProspectMicaProspect
Coleman ProspectMicaProspect
E J Goggins ProspectMicaProspect
New Ground MineMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

4 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Berner in 4 storm reports between 1998 and 2012: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 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
July 2012HailBerner$217,000Multiple reports were received from the public of quarter to golf ball sized hail in the eastern portion of Monroe County, from Berner to Juliette.
April 2011LightningBerner$10,000The Monroe County Emergency Management Director reported that lightning struck a barn near the Butts county line setting the structure on fire. The barn was destroyed as a result.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindBerner$6,000The Monroe County Emergency Manager reported 20 to 30 trees blown down, mainly in the northeast part of the county.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindBerner$3,000The Monroe county sheriff's office reported trees and power lines were knocked down in the north half of the county.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Cabaniss2.7 miles14
Juliette3.6 miles13
Percale4.8 miles13
Logwall6.9 miles14
Blount7.2 miles14
Maynard7.6 miles14
Box Ankle8.1 miles14
Higgins Mill9.5 miles11

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 BernerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q43080636The 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 354555. 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.