BlockBessie, Georgia
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Tignall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30673. It stands on Williamson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Celeste quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1906 USGS Crawfordville quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1971 USGS Celeste quadrangle1:24000
- 1980 USGS Clark Hill Lake quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
99 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Bessie (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 516 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 5 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 | 50 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-WILKES-001 |
| 7 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 2.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | 13 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019WILKES001 |
| 18 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-WILKES-007 |
| 14 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 20 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-WILKES-004 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Town | 0.2 miles | 12 | |
| Prather | 1.1 miles | 12 | |
| Armstrong (historical) | 2.6 miles | 12 | |
| Brickhouse | 2.7 miles | 12 | |
| Celeste | 2.8 miles | 12 | |
| Callaway | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Linesville | 3.5 miles | 12 | |
| Thaxton (historical) | 4.1 miles | 12 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 342737. 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.