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Brickhouse, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Washington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30673. The Survey maps it on the Celeste quadrangle.

Brickhouse within Wilkes County

On record in Brickhouse

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.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Brickhouse between 1992 and 2019, burning about 479 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 5 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 burning50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use8
Natural7
Smoking5
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony3
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2017Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-WILKES-003
7 September 2016Debris and open burning4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-WILKES-001
4 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Debris and open burning2.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-WILKES-004
23 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use5.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilkes County

Storms near this place

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brickhouse in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2025: 2 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2025Thunderstorm WindBrickhouse$1,000One tree down near the intersection of branham road and industrial park road.
September 2023HailBrickhouse-Golf ball sized hail cracked windshield on Hwy 47 near Hwy 195.
April 2013HailBrickhouse-The Wilkes County 911 Center reported quarter sized hail southwest of Washington.

Every storm recorded in Wilkes 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
Celeste1.9 miles12
Prather1.9 miles12
Jackson Heights2.3 miles12
New Town2.5 miles12
Bessie (historical)2.7 miles12
Washington Heights3.5 miles13
Armstrong (historical)3.5 miles12
Lincoln Heights3.6 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 342740. 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.