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Burnside, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1944 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Montgomery census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31406. It stands on Shipyard Creek. The Survey maps it on the Isle of Hope quadrangle.

Burnside within Chatham County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Burnside between 1992 and 2017, burning about 321 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 17 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 burning20
Arson/incendiarism17
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking3
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
2 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2016Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-CHATHAM-002
26 July 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 July 2000Recreation and ceremony6.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CHATHAM-006
4 June 1996Debris and open burning4.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 June 1996Recreation and ceremony14 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 June 1993Debris and open burning8.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chatham County

Storms near this place

16 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Burnside in 16 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 12 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
September 2017Flash FloodBurnside$25,000Chatham County Emergency Management reported 11 people and 2 dogs were rescued from a home on Beaulie Farm Bend.
August 2011Thunderstorm WindBurnside$2,500A spotter reported several large trees down in the Kingsway subdivision on Whitefield Avenue.
May 2010Thunderstorm WindBurnside$1,500A trained weather spotter reported several trees down along Coffee Bluff Road, 2 miles southwest of Vernonburg, Georgia.
January 2014Thunderstorm WindBurnside$1,000County Warning Point reported a powerline down near the intersection of Coffee Bluff Road and White Bluff Avenue.
September 2012Thunderstorm WindBurnside$1,000An emergency manager reported a tree and power line down at Coffee Bluff and Coffee Villa Road.
August 2012Thunderstorm WindBurnside$500One tree blocking Railroad Avenue at Shipyard Road.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBurnside$250The public reported 8 inch diameter tree limbs down on Burnside Island.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBurnside$250The public reported 75 pound banana trees placed in pots were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindBurnside-Chatham County Emergency Management reported a tree down in the 1300 block of Whitfield Park Drive.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindBurnside-Broadcast media relayed a report of a large tree down across the roadway near Strachan|Avenue and Whitefield Avenue.
April 2015Thunderstorm WindBurnside-An emergency manager reported power lines down at the 400 Block of Beaulieu Avenue.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindBurnside-Chatham County Emergency Management reported trees and power lines blocking the road at Beaulieu Bend and Beaulieu Farm Bend Road. Also, a tree on a house at 249-A Shipyard Road.
June 2008Thunderstorm WindBurnside-The public estimated thunderstorm winds of 60 mph in Burnside, Georgia.
June 2008HailBurnside-A trained weather spotter reported penny size hail in Burnside, Georgia.
June 2008HailBurnside-Penny size hail was reported in Burnside, Georgia.
June 2008HailBurnside-An employee with the Fire Department on Shipyard Road reported nickel to quarter size hail.

Every storm recorded in Chatham 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
Montgomery0.7 miles15
Beaulieu0.8 miles15
Pin Point1.2 miles15
Vernon View1.2 miles15
Vernonburg1.6 miles15
Rio Vista1.6 miles15
Bethesda1.6 miles15
Nicholsonville1.8 miles17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 312059. 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.