Concord, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Plains census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31719. The Survey maps it on the Draneville quadrangle.

Concord within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Draneville quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

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 Concord between 1992 and 2020, burning about 510 acres in total. 17 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
Debris and open burning	105
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Natural	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	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
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	5.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-WEBSTER-005
23 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-SUMTER-005
20 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-SUMTER-013
18 September 2003	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Concord: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, Free. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Americus	Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, Free	Prospect	1912

Every working recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

2 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Concord in 2 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Concord	$10,000	The Sumter County 911 center reported several trees blown down from Dupree Road, Orchid Drive and Tallent Store Road northwest of Americus to Leslie-Lamar Road near Leslie.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Concord	$5,000	The Sumter County Emergency Management Director reported that approximately two dozen trees were down across the county. At least 10 trees were down in Americus and nearly a dozen trees were down in the western end of the county near Plains.

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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
Friendship	2.2 miles	7
Shiloh	3.9 miles	7
Myrtle Springs (historical)	4.0 miles	7
Magnolia Springs (historical)	5.1 miles	8
New Point	7.2 miles	8
Plains	7.3 miles	8
Lebanon (historical)	8.1 miles	8
Northside Homes	8.6 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326229. 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.