Dames Ferry, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Forsyth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31046. It stands on Deer Creek. The Survey maps it on the Dames Ferry quadrangle.

Dames Ferry within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Dames Ferry quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

243 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Dames Ferry between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,255 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 21 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	142
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Equipment and vehicle use	22
Arson/incendiarism	21
Natural	11
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1997	Natural	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-MONROE-004
21 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1993	Natural	6.0 acres	Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge	COMP34WF
20 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dames Ferry: 1 producer, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica. 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
	L D Owen Prospect	Mica	Prospect
	Macon Plant #21 & Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dames Ferry in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2008: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 2 injuries. 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 1998	Tornado (F0)	Dames Ferry	2 hurt, $100,000	A severe thunderstorm cell spawned a tornado in the southeast corner of the county. The damage path was surveyed by a NWS employee who reported damage at the Whispering Pines mobile home park. Four mobile homes and a van were destroyed, mainly from trees falling on them.Two minor injuries occurred. Numerous trees and power lines were downed. Most of the damage appeared to be straight-line winds, but there was eveidence of circulation in some of the tree damage sites near the mobile home park. A metal outbuilding was lifted from a concrete pad and dropped 100 feet away, but items beneath the storage building remained intact on the pad. Eyewitness reports described the funnels as they ascended and descended. One person reported his truck was turned around in almost a complete circle but was left upright.
January 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Dames Ferry	$500	WMAZ Television of Macon, Georgia reported that three to four trees were down on U.S. Highway 23/Georgia Highway 87 north of Georgia Highway 18 near Lake Juliette or about two miles northwest of Dames Ferry.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Parker (historical)	4.6 miles	12
Percale	6.0 miles	13
Bolingbroke	6.5 miles	12
Juliette	7.1 miles	13
Smarr	8.7 miles	10
Maynard	9.0 miles	14
Star Mills	10.3 miles	14
Berner	10.7 miles	14

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 Dames Ferry	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888708	The 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 355434. 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.