Braganza, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the Waycross census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31503. It lies near Bear Island. The Survey maps it on the Waycross SE quadrangle.

Braganza within Ware County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1967 USGS Waycross SE quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
1994 USGS Waycross SE quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

402 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 402 fires within 5 miles of Braganza between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,441 acres in total. 78 started naturally. 38 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	162
Natural	78
Railroad operations and maintenance	78
Arson/incendiarism	38
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	2
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
8 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2017	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-WARE-007
5 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-BRANTLEY-003
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-WARE-013

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ware County

Storms near this place

5 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Braganza in 5 storm reports between 2008 and 2016: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Braganza	-	A tree was blown down on Jacksonville Highway.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Braganza	-	A tree was blown down over U.S. Highway 1. The time of damage was based on radar.
June 2010	Hail	Braganza	-	Penny size hail was reported on Swamp Perimeter Road.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Braganza	-	Several trees and power lines were blown down on Swamp Perimeter Road.
March 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Braganza	-	A 4 inch diameter tree was blown down on the Laura Walker Golf Course. The time of event was estimated by radar.

Every storm recorded in Ware 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
Astoria	2.9 miles	7
Skullhead	4.4 miles	8
Waycross	8.5 miles	7
Garlington Heights Housing Project	9.0 miles	8
Emerson Park	9.1 miles	8
Sunnyside	9.6 miles	7
Needham	9.7 miles	8
Wahoma	9.7 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331227. 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.