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Dawesville, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ochlocknee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31792. It stands on Bay Branch. The Survey maps it on the Ochlocknee quadrangle.

Dawesville within Thomas County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

413 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 413 fires within 5 miles of Dawesville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,369 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 38 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 burning250
Railroad operations and maintenance52
Arson/incendiarism38
Equipment and vehicle use33
Recreation and ceremony12
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking6
Natural5

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
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenance2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020THOMAS010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Thomas County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Dawesville: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Fullers Earth, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Feldspar. 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
OchlockneeFullers EarthPast ProducerMontmorillonite, Attapulgite
Thomasville MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Thomasville Mine & PlantFeldsparProducer

Every working recorded in Thomas County

Storms near this place

10 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dawesville in 10 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 heavy rain, 1 flash flood, 1 flood. 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
March 2009FloodDawesville$75,000Minor to moderate flooding along the Ochlockonee River affected three homes on Flamingo Road northwest of Thomasville. State Highway 3 and U.S. Highway 84 at Barnetts Creek were closed.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindDawesville$50,000Several trees and power lines were blown down across the county. There were also large trees blown down in Thomasville with at least one landing on a house as posted on social media. Damage was estimated.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindDawesville$5,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across Thomas county, starting along Highway 19 near Ochlocknee.
May 2015Thunderstorm WindDawesville$1,000A tree was blown down on Maddox Road and Steward Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindDawesville-Trees were blown down.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindDawesville-A tree was blown down on Cairo Road near Highway 84.
June 2012Heavy RainDawesville-The USGS river gauge located along the Ochlockonee River northwest of Thomasville measured 6.15 inches of rain in a 3 hour period with 4.23 inches falling in just 1 hour.
March 2012Heavy RainDawesville-A storm total of 5.78 inches was measured at the Ochlockonee River near Thomasville.
March 2009Flash FloodDawesville-Flash flooding was reported at Barnetts Creek and U.S. Highway 84.
March 2011HailDawesville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thomas 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
Pasco1.0 miles8
Fredonia3.4 miles8
Ochlocknee4.2 miles12
Booker Heights5.3 miles8
Homestead Park5.7 miles8
Dewey City5.9 miles8
Thomasville6.1 miles8
McLoughlin Heights6.3 miles8

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 Q122566418The 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 331526. 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.