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Boneville, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Dearing census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30808. It stands on Pegaham Branch. The Survey maps it on the Thomson East quadrangle. It stands 472 feet above sea level.

Boneville within McDuffie County

On record in Boneville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

499 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 499 fires within 5 miles of Boneville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 856 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 47 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 burning284
Smoking50
Arson/incendiarism47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined38
Misuse of fire by a minor27
Equipment and vehicle use26
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony11
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-MCDUFFIE-003
6 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McDuffie County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Boneville: 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
D.J. James PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Georgia Kaolin PitKaolinOccurrence
May's PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
Poss MineKaolinProducer

Every working recorded in McDuffie County

Storms near this place

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boneville in 16 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
April 2009Tornado (EF0)Boneville$72,000Dispatch reported trees down, some on vehicles, on Moose Club road. NWS damage survey also found and minor damage to several homes.
January 2010Flash FloodBoneville$20,000Sheriff reported flooding at apartment complex with up to a foot of water in several apartments.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindBoneville$8,000McDuffie County paper reported a couple of trees down and a mobile home moved off the foundation by several feet on May road.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindBoneville$6,000Jefferson Electric reported trees and large limbs down on powerlines in the vicinity of Happy Valley and Fort Creek roads.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindBoneville$3,000Sheriff reported trees down along Quail Farm Road.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBoneville$3,000Public reported trees down on Hwy 78 southeast of Thomson.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBoneville$2,000Sheriff reported a tree blocking Wire road. A few others were down along the side of the road.
April 2009Thunderstorm WindBoneville$1,000Paper reported a mobile home was moved 2 feet off its foundation.
June 2023HailBoneville$100Trained spotter report, via social media, of pea size hail on Quail Farm Rd. Time estimated.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindBoneville-Trained spotter relayed pictures via Facebook of downed trees off Quail Farm Rd near Brier Creek. Time estimated by radar.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindBoneville-McDuffie County dispatch reported a tree down at 4260 Happy Valley Rd. Time estimated by radar.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindBoneville-Trees and power lines down west of Dearing near Hobbs Mill Rd and also near Wire Rd and Augusta Hwy. Other trees were reported down across the western half of McDuffie Co.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindBoneville-Trees down along Howard Rd and White Oak Rd.
April 2016HailBoneville-Public reported nickel size hail just south of the town of Thomson.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBoneville-Sheriff dispatch reported a tree blocking Wire Rd.
May 1999HailBoneville-EPD reported dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in McDuffie 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
Dearing3.2 miles15
Megahee3.9 miles15
Thomson4.3 miles10
Happy Valley5.0 miles15
Adamsville5.4 miles16
Autney5.9 miles15
Ansley Mill6.1 miles20
Stones Crossroads6.2 miles20

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 BonevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058885The 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 354810. 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.