Calvary, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Calvary-Reno census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39828. The Survey maps it on the Calvary quadrangle.

Calvary within Grady County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1954 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 4 printings
1956 USGS Calvary quadrangle1:24000
1959 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1960 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Bainbridge quadrangle1:100000
1982 USGS Calvary quadrangle1:24000
1988 USGS Tallahassee quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

207 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Calvary between 1992 and 2020, burning about 888 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 23 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 burning	135
Arson/incendiarism	23
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	4

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1995	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Florida Forest Service	DANNIBELL RD (20) NOV
24 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020DECATUR010
16 September 2019	Arson/incendiarism	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020DECATUR009
16 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-GRADY-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Grady County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Calvary: 3 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fullers Earth. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Meigs-Attapulgus-Quincy	Fullers Earth	Producer	1895
Amsterdam Mine	Clay	Producer
Mayfield Mine	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Grady County

Storms near this place

6 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calvary in 6 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvary	$25,000	Numerous trees and power lines down across portions of southern Grady County. A few homes sustained minor damage from fallen trees.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvary	$5,000	Grady County S.O. reported several downed trees and power lines.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvary	$250	Several trees were down.
March 2026	Tornado (EF0)	Calvary	-	A brief tornado touched down along Georgia Highway 111, downing a couple of trees. The tornado moved east, crossing Gainey Road, where a couple of additional trees were uprooted. The tornado dissipated before reaching Pine Hill Road. The damage was consistent with an EF-0 tornado with maximum winds of approximately 80 mph.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvary	-	Trees were blown down in Grady county.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvary	-	Trees were blown down along Highway 111 near Calvary.

Every storm recorded in Grady 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Bethel	3.5 miles	12
Pine Hill	3.8 miles	11
Reno	4.4 miles	12
Nickleville	5.5 miles	12
Sofkee (historical)	5.7 miles	12
Good Hope (historical)	6.3 miles	12
Magnolia	7.3 miles	12
Orange Springs	7.6 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 354940. 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.