Blundale, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Summertown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30401. The Survey maps it on the Dellwood quadrangle.

Blundale within Emanuel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1971 USGS Dellwood quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

233 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Blundale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,477 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 29 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	131
Arson/incendiarism	29
Natural	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	14
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	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
3 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2010	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-EMANUEL-013
17 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-EMANUEL-015
16 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-EMANUEL-007
14 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-EMANUEL-018
12 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emanuel County

Storms near this place

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blundale in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2012: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2008	Tornado (EF2)	Blundale	$750,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that the second tornado, an EF2, that touched down in far eastern Johnson county, just northwest of Kite, continued on an east-northeastward track into far northwestern Emanuel county, lifting approximately one mile west of Blundale, just north of Cordie Road. Maximum winds within the tornado were estimated to be 130 mph with a maximum path width up to 1/2 mile as the tornado first entered Emanuel county. Approximately 28 homes in Emanuel county sustained damage from the tornado, two of which were destroyed, 13 of which suffered major damage, and 10 had minor damage.
January 2006	Tornado (F1)	Blundale	$50,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service concluded that the tornado, which began in Johnson county northwest of Kite, continued on an east-southeastward track across northern Emanuel county. The tornado entered the county four miles east-northeast or Kite or four miles west-southwest of Blundale and traveled a distance of approximately seven miles across the northern portion of the county, terminating approximately two miles south of Summertown. The tornado path length within Emanuel county was seven miles while the path width was approximately 1/4 mile. The overall path length of the tornado for Johnson and Emanuel counties combined was 12 miles. A number of trees and power lines were down along the path of the tornado, especially along U.S. Highway 1 between the Johnson county line and Summertown. One home also sustained damage in this area.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Blundale	$5,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia concluded that straight line winds, with estimated gusts up to 90 mph, caused damage up to two miles south of the EF2 tornado track in far northwestern Emanuel county. This damage was noted up to two miles south of the tornado track, which entered Emanuel county about 3.5 miles west-southwest of Blundale. Widespread damage to trees was observed throughout this area, but no structural damage was observed or reported in this section of the county.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Blundale	$5,000	The Emanuel County 911 Center reported that many trees were down across the county as a significant thunderstorm downburst moved across the county from Blundale, to Swainsboro, to Twin City and Stillmore. The public estimated wind speeds in the 55 to 60 mph range at a convenience store just east of Swainsboro.
November 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Blundale	$3,000	Amateur radio operators reported that several trees were down across the far northern part of the county near the Jefferson county line. Portions of McGarrs Mill Pond Road were blocked from downed trees.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Blundale	$250	The Emanuel County 911 Center reported that a tree was blown down south of Wadley.
March 2011	Hail	Blundale	-	The Johnson County Emergency Management Director reported that quarter-sized hail covered the ground north of Swainsboro. The public and amateur radio operators provided several reports of penny-sized hail in this same area. Golf ball-sized hail was observed near Kite along the Emanuel county line as the storm moved out of Johnson county. WSR-88D suggests that two separate hail storms moved across the county during this time frame. On the first storm produced hail as large as quarters and tracked from between Kite and Blundale to near Garfield. The second storm produced only penny-sized hail and tracked from just east of Meeks to near Twin City.
July 2002	Hail	Blundale	-	The Emanuel county 911 center reported dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in Emanuel 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dellwood	5.2 miles	7
Old Dellwood	5.7 miles	8
Blun	5.9 miles	8
Summertown	6.1 miles	8
Stevens Crossing	7.4 miles	7
Modoc	7.7 miles	8
Colemans Lake	7.9 miles	7
Three Points	8.1 miles	8

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 Blundale	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q43080686	The 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 311581. 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.