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Browntown, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Waynesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31543. It lies near Flowers Island. The Survey maps it on the Browntown quadrangle.

Browntown within Brantley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 15 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

236 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 236 fires within 5 miles of Browntown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,803 acres in total. 44 started naturally. 60 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 burning78
Arson/incendiarism60
Natural44
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
30 September 2019Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BRANTLEY021
3 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2001Natural24 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-BRANTLEY-009
18 September 1997Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BRANTLEY-007
28 August 2011Natural120 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BRANTLEY-015
25 August 2011Natural1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BRANTLEY-014

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Brantley County

Storms near this place

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Browntown in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2024Heavy RainBrowntown-A public weather station off of GA Highway 32 measured 2.3 inches of rainfall. Rain | began shortly after 4 pm and continued through about 5:30 pm.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindBrowntown-Numerous trees were blown down across northeast Brantley county. The time of damage was based on radar.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindBrowntown-Part of house roof was damaged with one shed destroyed. Two trees were also blown down near Highway 32 east of Browntown Road.
May 2008HailBrowntown-A spotter reported golf ball size hail near Highway 32 in Northeastern Brantley County.
May 2021HailBrowntown-no account filed
October 1997HailBrowntown-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Brantley 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
Popwellville2.4 miles16
Fendig3.1 miles15
Needmore6.3 miles14
Waynesville7.5 miles17
Atkinson8.7 miles17
Hortense9.2 miles14
Trudie10.0 miles14
Manson (historical)10.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331258. 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.