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Champion Crossroad, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Pine Mountain census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31822. The Survey maps it on the Pine Mountain quadrangle.

Champion Crossroad within Harris 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

166 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of Champion Crossroad between 1992 and 2020, burning about 714 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 18 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 burning100
Arson/incendiarism18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Natural4

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
23 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HARRIS003
21 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-HARRIS-004
19 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HARRIS-007
8 August 2002Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-HARRIS-003
25 August 2011Arson/incendiarism3.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HARRIS-005
2 August 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 August 2000Misuse of fire by a minor2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-MERIWETHER-012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Champion Crossroad in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
March 2023Thunderstorm WindChampion Crossroad-Report of a tree down at Hwy 354 and Hwy 27.

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
Mountainbrook1.2 miles10
Pine Mountain1.3 miles10
Tip Top3.3 miles10
Smiths Crossroads3.5 miles11
Pine Mountain Valley4.4 miles10
Hopewell4.9 miles11
Wisdoms Store (historical)5.1 miles11
Beech Springs5.9 miles11

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 Q122597042The 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 355108. 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.