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Brown Hill, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Northeast Bleckley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31017. The Survey maps it on the Danville West quadrangle.

Brown Hill within Bleckley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

381 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 381 fires within 5 miles of Brown Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,308 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 21 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 burning228
Equipment and vehicle use63
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Arson/incendiarism21
Smoking19
Natural15
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony6

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
8 September 2020Debris and open burning11 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021BLECKLEY002
7 September 2019Debris and open burning16 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BLECKLEY003
7 September 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TWIGGS-002
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BLECKLEY-005
30 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BLECKLEY-011

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bleckley County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brown Hill in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2024: 2 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 2016Thunderstorm WindBrown Hill$2,000The broadcast media reported trees blown down along Highway 112 north of Cary.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindBrown Hill$1,000Tree downed along hwy 278 just south of Mobley White Road.

Every storm recorded in Bleckley 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
Cary3.5 miles10
Goldsboro5.8 miles8
Powell7.0 miles8
Rebie7.7 miles8
Five Points8.0 miles10
Royal9.7 miles10
Coley10.9 miles10
McGriff (historical)11.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 342368. 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.