BlockCentral Springs, Georgia
25 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Benning census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31905. It lies near Craston Hill. The Survey maps it on the Cusseta quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
10 surveys from 25 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1908 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
- 1929 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:48000
- 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1949 USGS Cusseta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Cusseta quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
- 1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
38 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Central Springs between 1992 and 2020, burning about 132 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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 |
|---|---|
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 6.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020CHATTAHOOCHEE001 |
| 29 June 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 5.9 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 June 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 3.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 June 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 June 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 June 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 June 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 June 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Central Springs in 1 storm report in 2009: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Central Springs | $100,000 | A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia, confirmed that an EF1 tornado had touched down approximately 2.5 miles south of Ochille and continued on an east-southeastward track across central Chattahoochee county, lifting about 4.0 miles east-southeast of its touchdown point. The path width was determined to be 440 yards with maximum winds estimated at 80 mph. The damage appeared to have begun as a downburst, within which the brief EF1 tornado spin up occurred. Combined damage from the downburst and EF1 tornado consisted of destruction of several out buildings and sheds. Hundreds of trees were flattened along the path of the tornado. Another EF1 tornado was spawned from the same supercell thunderstorm, also within Chattahoochee county, just eight minutes later and four miles further east. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Halloca (historical) | 2.1 miles | 25 | |
| Ochillee | 2.6 miles | 25 | |
| Heineburg Village (historical) | 2.6 miles | 25 | |
| Cusseta | 4.6 miles | 25 | |
| Christopher | 5.3 miles | 13 | |
| Cottage Mills (historical) | 5.7 miles | 23 | |
| Jamestown | 6.3 miles | 25 | |
| Eelbeck | 6.5 miles | 25 |
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 Q122541877 | 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 351010. 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.