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Consolidated Government of Augusta-Richmond County (Balance), Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Gracewood census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30906. It stands on Bowlmaker Branch. The Survey maps it on the Hephzibah quadrangle. It stands 341 feet above sea level.

Consolidated Government of Augusta-Richmond County (Balance) within Richmond County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

673 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 673 fires within 5 miles of Consolidated Government of Augusta-Richmond County (Balance) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,850 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 344 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
Arson/incendiarism344
Debris and open burning174
Misuse of fire by a minor64
Missing data/not specified/undetermined25
Equipment and vehicle use23
Recreation and ceremony16
Smoking12
Natural11
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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
9 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2008Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-RICHMOND-002
7 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-RICHMOND-013
7 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-RICHMOND-014
6 September 2019Railroad operations and maintenance5.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020RICHMOND005
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-RICHMOND-012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Consolidated Government of Augusta-Richmond County (Balance): 9 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 past producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Kaolin. 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
Albion Kaolin MineKaolinProducer
Albion Kaolin Mine, Pit BKaolinProducer
Albion PitKaolinProducer1900
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Davis Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dixon Airline Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Gate 5 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
Highway 56 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
James Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Karleen Road Pit Vb James SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Richmond 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
Rain Tree0.6 miles19
Town and Country0.7 miles19
Spanish Trace1.3 miles20
DeBruce1.4 miles19
Windsor Spring1.4 miles20
Fairington1.5 miles20
Melton1.7 miles19
Quail Hollow1.8 miles20

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 Consolidated Government of Augusta-Richmond County (Balance)An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q127387064The 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 2405078. 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.