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Coopers, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Coopers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31031. The Survey maps it on the Gordon quadrangle.

Coopers within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

350 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 350 fires within 5 miles of Coopers between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,060 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 13 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 burning194
Equipment and vehicle use35
Smoking31
Misuse of fire by a minor25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Natural17
Recreation and ceremony13
Arson/incendiarism13
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1999Natural23 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BALDWIN012
26 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BALDWIN-005
26 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BALDWIN-006
25 September 2016Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BALDWIN-004
24 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BALDWIN011
22 September 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019BALDWIN004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Coopers: 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, 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
Drill Site 1AluminumProspect
General Refractories MineAluminumPast Producer
Stevens Pottery PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
Stevens WorksKaolinProducer
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium
Youngblood MineKaolinProducer

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coopers in 4 storm reports between 2015 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
August 2015Thunderstorm WindCoopers$9,000The Baldwin County Emergency Manager reported several trees and powerlines blown down across Southern Baldwin County from Coopers to Pancras.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCoopers$3,000The Baldwin County 911 Center reported a tree blown down on McCuller Weaver Road. The tree fell on a power line.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindCoopers$1,000A tree was downed at intersection of Covey Rd SW and Grace Weaver Rd SW.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCoopers$1,000Trees reported down near Forest Valley Dr and Gordon Highway.

Every storm recorded in Baldwin 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
Pancras2.0 miles10
Mount Pleasant2.0 miles12
The Colony3.7 miles15
Scottsboro4.2 miles15
Harrisburg5.4 miles15
Carling (historical)5.9 miles15
Browns Crossing6.1 miles11
Allenwood6.4 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326233. 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.