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Crosland, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Norman Park census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31771. The Survey maps it on the Norman Park quadrangle.

Crosland within Colquitt County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

207 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Crosland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,042 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 24 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 burning145
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1

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 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2017Debris and open burning9.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-COLQUITT-002
7 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-TIFT-006
6 September 2020Natural15 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021COLQUITT004
29 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-COLQUITT-004
26 September 2019Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020COLQUITT010
26 September 2018Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019WORTH002
24 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Colquitt County

Storms near this place

7 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Crosland in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. The reports record 1 death. 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
February 2000Tornado (F2)Crosland1 killed, $500,000A strong tornado tore through extreme northeast Colquitt County near Crosland toppling trees and power lines before it moved into extreme southwest Tift County. Several mobile homes were damaged. One woman was killed in a mobile home just northeast of Crosland when a large tree and another mobile home were blown against her home. Colquitt County was declared a federal disaster area. Reported by a amateur radio operator and the Colquitt County EMA.
February 2012Tornado (EF0)Crosland$20,000A weak tornado touched down in the vicinity of Ellenton Omega Road and traveled northeastward a short distance while skipping up and down before lifting permanently near the Colquitt/Cook county border. Damage to barns, trees down, pivots destroyed, and some roof damage to homes was reported. Most of the damage from this tornado was on Sharon Church Rd, South Powell Rd, Ellenton Omega Rd, Buddy Baker Rd, St. Paul Church Rd, Albert Brady Rd, and Lawyer Sumner Rd. Maximum winds were estimated around 80 mph. Monetary damage was estimated.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindCrosland$3,000A large pecan tree limb fell on a home and damaged a couple of shingles.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCrosland-Trees and power lines were blown down on a home in the 1300 block of JP Perry Road in northern Colquitt county.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindCrosland-Several trees were blown down across northeast Colquitt county.
December 2018Funnel CloudCrosland-An officer reported a funnel cloud in the northern part of Colquitt county.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindCrosland-A tree was blown down on Charlie Hamm Road.

Every storm recorded in Colquitt 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
Norman Park3.4 miles9
Cool Springs5.6 miles8
Barbers7.0 miles9
Pineboro8.9 miles9
Ellenton9.3 miles8
New Elm9.4 miles10
Bayboro (historical)10.3 miles8
Kirkwood10.7 miles9

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 Q122589507The 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 331479. 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.