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Claybed, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Warner Robins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31047. The Survey maps it on the Warner Robins SE quadrangle.

Claybed within Houston 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.

Fires near this place

276 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 276 fires within 5 miles of Claybed between 1992 and 2020, burning about 785 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 40 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 burning121
Misuse of fire by a minor48
Arson/incendiarism40
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural9
Smoking9
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
6 September 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Debris and open burning2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020TWIGGS004
18 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2011Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HOUSTON-009
11 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston 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 Claybed: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin, 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
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium
Bear Creek Road QuarryKaolinOccurrence
Kathleen QuarryKaolinProducer

Every working recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

4 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Claybed in 4 storm reports between 2022 and 2023: 4 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
July 2023Thunderstorm WindClaybed$1,000Emergency manager reports a tree down at the intersection of Old Perry Rd and Piney Grove Rd.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindClaybed$1,000Tree down on 100 block of Solomon Rd.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindClaybed-Report of several trees downed on property on Ogeechee Ct.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindClaybed-Report of an estimated 80 ft tree uprooted and fell on a home on Coosa drive.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Kathleen1.5 miles11
Woodard Estates1.6 miles12
Bonaire Heights1.7 miles11
Bonaire1.8 miles11
Lashley2.1 miles11
Waterford South2.2 miles11
South Pointe2.4 miles12
River West2.5 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 Q122543203The 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 1671641. 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.