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Boys Estate, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1921 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Everett census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31525. The Survey maps it on the Darien quadrangle.

Boys Estate within Glynn County

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

197 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 197 fires within 5 miles of Boys Estate between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,844 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 63 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 burning64
Arson/incendiarism63
Equipment and vehicle use26
Natural16
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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
9 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-GLYNN-002
20 September 1992Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2008Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glynn 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 Boys Estate: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium. 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
North DarienTitaniumProspect

Every working recorded in Glynn County

Storms near this place

7 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boys Estate in 7 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 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
May 2021Thunderstorm WindBoys Estate-A couple of trees were blown down near Highway 17. The time of damage was based on radar.
August 2017Funnel CloudBoys Estate-A funnel cloud was observed along Interstate 95 near Mile Marker 47, north of Brunswick.
April 2014Funnel CloudBoys Estate-A funnel cloud was reported.
April 2014HailBoys Estate-A spotter observed dime to nickel size hail.
May 2012Thunderstorm WindBoys Estate-Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation off of Highway 17 reported 2 trees blown down and pea size hail. The time of the event was based on radar imagery.
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Boys Estate-A briefed tornado touchdown occurred near Interstate 95 at mile post 42. There was no damage. The tornado lifted after making brief ground contact.
May 2008HailBoys Estate-The Park service reported quarter size hail at the Hofwyl Broadfield Plantation historic site.

Every storm recorded in Glynn 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
Evelyn0.1 miles15
Broadfield0.9 miles15
New Hope2.5 miles15
Marshes-of-Mackay3.6 miles15
Oglethorpe Manor3.9 miles15
Groveside Park4.1 miles17
North End4.4 miles15
Pennick4.6 miles17

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 Q122551913The 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 331222. 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.