Cary, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cochran census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31017. The Survey maps it on the Danville West quadrangle.

Cary within Bleckley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1956 USGS Jeffersonville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Danville West quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Photographs

2 photographs, 2017

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Vintage barns near Cary, Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress

Rustic barn near Cary, Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

371 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 371 fires within 5 miles of Cary between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,617 acres in total. 19 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 burning	246
Equipment and vehicle use	56
Natural	19
Arson/incendiarism	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Smoking	11
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
8 September 2020	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021BLECKLEY002
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TWIGGS-002
5 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BLECKLEY-005
4 September 1992	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BLECKLEY-011
28 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TWIGGS006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bleckley County

Storms near this place

12 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cary in 12 storm reports between 1993 and 2017: 5 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 2 tornado, 1 lightning. 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
March 2007	Tornado (EF0)	Cary	$250,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service in Peachtree City concluded that an EF0 tornado touched down in extreme northern Bleckley county about two miles north-northeast of Cary, very near the Twiggs county line, and tracked east-northeast just south of the Twiggs county line to about 0.5 mile west of Brown Hill. The overall path length of the tornado was 1.0 mile with a maximum path width of 1/4 mile. The tornado touched down on Emergency Road 266 where several outbuildings and a number of trees were blown down. Three homes sustained moderate roof damage and a couple of homes had their patio covers destroyed. The back porch of a business along Interstate-16 in extreme northeast Bleckley was also destroyed.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Cary	$80,000	The public reported a 15-mile long path of damage across northeast Bleckley county, beginning near Cary and terminating near Rebie, along which numerous trees were blown down, a 20-foot high empty water tank was blown over, a barn was destroyed, and a house suffered minor damage. While much of the damage was caused by strong straight-line thunderstorm winds, a survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, concluded that a severe microburst or gustnado, moving in a southeastward direction, affected a small area approximately 60 yards wide and 200 yards long beginning approximately two miles northwest of Goldsboro along Georgia Highway 278,. Numerous trees were blown down along Georgia Highway 278, all felled to the north, while other trees, blown down approximately one mile south of this location, were felled to the south. Residents reported seeing a funnel cloud in the Cary area.
January 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Cary	$10,000	A National Weather Service survey team found that a brief EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 80 MPH and a maximum path width of 50 yards began along Dillard Cary Road and travelled around a half mile northeast snapping or uprooting several trees before ending along Willis Howell Road. [01/21/17: Tornado #4, County #1/1, EF0, Bleckley, 2017:028].
July 2003	Lightning	Cary	$5,000	The local newspaper of Cochran reported that lightning struck and set on fire a barn on Cary Road. The barn was a complete loss.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Cary	$5,000	Several large tree limbs and a few power lines were downed in the Cary along Georgia Highway 112.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Cary	$1,500	The Bleckley County 911 Center reported that several trees were blown down.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Cary	$1,000	Bleckely county 911 reported trees blown down.
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cary	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked tree limbs onto power lines on Georgia Highway 112 just south of Cary.
June 2013	Hail	Cary	-	A trained spotter reported half dollar sized hail to the north-northeast of Cochran.
May 2003	Hail	Cary	-	The Bleckley county Emergency Management Director observed quarter to golf ball-sized hail on Georgia Highway 112 in Cary.
May 2003	Hail	Cary	-	The public reported dime to quarter-sized hail.
April 1993	Hail	Cary	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Bleckley 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
Brown Hill	3.5 miles	10
Five Points	4.6 miles	10
Goldsboro	5.0 miles	8
Powell	5.4 miles	8
Royal	6.2 miles	10
Coley	7.5 miles	10
Rebie	7.7 miles	8
McGriff (historical)	8.2 miles	10

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.

Wikipedia article on Cary	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4845704	The 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 312398. 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.