BlockBragg, Georgia
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Gray-Macon East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31032. The Survey maps it on the Gray quadrangle.
On record in Bragg
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 within a mile 1 record
The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.
Roberts-Bush-Roberts Houselisted 2015 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Gray quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
331 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 331 fires within 5 miles of Bragg between 1992 and 2020, burning about 801 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 15 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 | 208 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 28 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 20 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 17 |
| Smoking | 17 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019JONES001 |
| 4 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 2014 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2015-JONES-003 |
| 23 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 22 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019JONES004 |
| 20 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020JONES004 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
3 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bragg in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2014: 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bragg | $20,000 | The Jones County 911 Center reported that numerous trees were blown down across the county. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bragg | $750 | The Jones County 911 Center reported three trees down. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bragg | $750 | The Jones County 911 Center reported that three trees were down in the Gray area. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 345337. 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.