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Byne Crossroads, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Leesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31763. The Survey maps it on the Leesburg quadrangle.

Byne Crossroads within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

313 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of Byne Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 853 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 51 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 burning170
Arson/incendiarism51
Misuse of fire by a minor40
Equipment and vehicle use26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2002Arson/incendiarism13 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LEE-012
6 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LEE-010
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2010Debris and open burning17 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-LEE-004
29 September 2019Debris and open burning6.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020LEE007
27 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Byne Crossroads: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Leesburg Sand Co MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

7 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Byne Crossroads in 7 storm reports between 2011 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
January 2017Thunderstorm WindByne Crossroads$3,000Fallen trees or limbs resulted in power outages southwest of Leesburg.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindByne Crossroads$1,000Several trees were blown down in the area around Palmyra Road.
August 2025Flash FloodByne Crossroads-Flash flooding was reported on Palmyra Road.
August 2022Thunderstorm WindByne Crossroads-Wires were blown down near the intersection of James Pond Road and Highway 32 W.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindByne Crossroads-A few trees were blown down at James Pond Road and Oakland Road.
March 2015Flash FloodByne Crossroads-Heavy rain led to a few rural road closures southwest of Leesburg.
April 2011HailByne Crossroads-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Oakland2.7 miles10
Century3.3 miles10
Leesburg3.5 miles10
Armena3.6 miles10
Jordan Place4.1 miles9
Palmyra4.3 miles10
Forrester4.5 miles10
Starksville6.5 miles9

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 Q122541601The 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 331301. 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.