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Bulloch Crossroads, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Manchester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31816. It stands on Hurricane Branch. The Survey maps it on the Shiloh quadrangle.

Bulloch Crossroads within Meriwether County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

241 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Bulloch Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 768 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 29 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 burning138
Arson/incendiarism29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony8
Smoking8
Natural7

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 2019Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MERIWETHER004
9 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TALBOT-005
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TALBOT-009
29 September 2005Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MERIWETHER-008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meriwether County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Bulloch Crossroads: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin, Iron. 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
G.B. Grant PropertyIronPast ProducerResidual
Warm Springs BauxiteKaolinPast Producer1910, 1915

Every working recorded in Meriwether County

Storms near this place

2 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bulloch Crossroads in 2 storm reports between 2015 and 2024: 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindBulloch Crossroads$2,000Two trees reported down near the intersection of Judson Bulloch Rd and Margaret Ln.
March 2015HailBulloch Crossroads-The public reported dime sized hail near Warm Springs.

Every storm recorded in Meriwether 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
Bussey Crossroads0.7 miles22
Manchester1.1 miles22
Routons Crossroads1.4 miles22
Bullochville (historical)1.8 miles22
Loftin2.0 miles22
Johnson Crossroads2.6 miles22
Warm Springs2.8 miles22
Nebula2.8 miles22

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 Q122568005The 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 312027. 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.