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Broughton, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Shady Dale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30056. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield quadrangle.

Broughton within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Broughton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 485 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 6 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 burning91
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Recreation and ceremony6
Arson/incendiarism6
Natural5
Smoking4
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 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning4.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2017Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-MORGAN-002
23 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-NEWTON-012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper 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 Broughton: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
Newton ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Broughton in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 1 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
July 2020Thunderstorm WindBroughton$1,000The Jasper County 911 center reported a tree blown down along Marben Farm Road.
June 1999HailBroughton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Morrow0.2 miles16
Farrar3.1 miles11
Kelly4.8 miles11
Maxwell6.1 miles11
Shady Dale8.0 miles11
Machen8.5 miles11
Prospect8.8 miles12
Kitchens Store (historical)9.0 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326197. 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.