BlockBridges Crossroad, Georgia
7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bronwood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39842. The Survey maps it on the Bronwood quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 7 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1973 USGS Bronwood quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
108 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Bridges Crossroad between 1992 and 2019, burning about 552 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 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 | 74 |
| Smoking | 13 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 1.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020TERRELL002 |
| 6 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 4.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 5 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2018-TERRELL-001 |
| 29 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-TERRELL-005 |
| 24 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-TERRELL-002 |
| 22 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.3 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020LEE004 |
| 22 September 1996 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 4.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
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 Bridges Crossroad in 3 storm reports between 2013 and 2015: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bridges Crossroad | $1,000 | A power line was blown down along Sellers Road. |
| June 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bridges Crossroad | $1,000 | The media relayed a viewer report of a tree down on Highway 32 close to the Lee county line with a lot of debris and limbs in the road. |
| June 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Bridges Crossroad | - | A tree was blown down across Highway 32. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sasser | 3.2 miles | 10 | |
| Bronwood | 4.5 miles | 7 | |
| Chickasawhatchee | 4.6 miles | 10 | |
| Dawson | 4.9 miles | 7 | |
| Herod | 6.6 miles | 9 | |
| Belmont (historical) | 6.7 miles | 7 | |
| Olivers Mill | 7.4 miles | 7 | |
| Yeomans | 7.7 miles | 7 |
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 Q122596683 | The 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 311789. 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.