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Cunningham Crossroads, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Woodland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31826. The Survey maps it on the Manchester quadrangle.

Cunningham Crossroads within Talbot County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

268 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 268 fires within 5 miles of Cunningham Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,206 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 56 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 burning135
Arson/incendiarism56
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural9
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking5

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 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TALBOT-007
8 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TALBOT-005
7 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-TALBOT-001
30 September 2019Recreation and ceremony1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020TALBOT012
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TALBOT-009
29 September 2005Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Talbot 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 Cunningham Crossroads: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron. 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
G.B. Grant PropertyIronPast ProducerResidual

Every working recorded in Talbot County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cunningham Crossroads in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2026: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2017Thunderstorm WindCunningham Crossroads$3,000The Talbot County Emergency Manager reported a large tree blown down near the intersection of Pleasant Valley Road and Tax Road. The tree pulled down power lines, shutting off power for many residents in the area.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindCunningham Crossroads$1,000The emergency manager relayed a report of a tree down along chalybeate springs road.

Every storm recorded in Talbot 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
Tax Crossroads1.7 miles22
Woodland2.5 miles22
Belleview3.6 miles22
Greens Mill3.8 miles22
Flint Hill3.9 miles22
Pleasant Hill3.9 miles12
Sardis4.1 miles22
Hawkins Crossroads4.7 miles22

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 Q122598203The 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 355408. 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.