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Blandy, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Milledgeville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31061. It stands on Little Fishing Creek. The Survey maps it on the Browns Crossing quadrangle.

Blandy within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

260 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 260 fires within 5 miles of Blandy between 1992 and 2019, burning about 597 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 10 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 burning158
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Smoking13
Natural12
Arson/incendiarism10
Recreation and ceremony9
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 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BALDWIN007
8 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BALDWIN005
23 September 1993Smoking5.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BALDWIN009
22 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BALDWIN-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin 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 Blandy: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Midgeville Plant No. 1Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

2 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blandy in 2 storm reports between 2022 and 2026: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
March 2026Tornado (EF0)Blandy-In collaboration with Baldwin County Emergency management and a|diagnosis of the radar data at the time, it was determined that a|EF0 tornado developed within the line of storms just west of|Milledgeville at approximately 725AM. The tornado downed a few|trees on State dairy Road including 1 onto a vehicle. The tornado continued east crossing Blandy road downing several trees as it traveled between Blandy Hills Elementary School and the athletic fields to the south in a largely wooded region. The|tornado crossed 441 and struck a City public works building on Charlton St damaging a canopy. The tornado continued east into Milledgeville proper downing trees on North Pickens St, North Clark St, and knocking a tree onto a house along Baldwin Ave. |The tornado quickly dissipated as it travelled past Baldwin Ave.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindBlandy-Report of a tree down on Hwy 49 near Fox Hill Rd.

Every storm recorded in Baldwin 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
Allenwood2.4 miles11
Browns Crossing3.4 miles11
Carling (historical)3.8 miles15
Milledgeville3.9 miles15
Harrisburg3.9 miles15
Hardwick4.4 miles15
Scottsboro5.1 miles15
Meriwether5.5 miles10

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.

Wikidata item Q122566444The 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 331187. 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.