Dempsey, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eastman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31023. The Survey maps it on the Eastman quadrangle.

Dempsey within Dodge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Eastman quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

741 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 741 fires within 5 miles of Dempsey between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,291 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 122 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	453
Arson/incendiarism	122
Equipment and vehicle use	53
Natural	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Recreation and ceremony	20
Smoking	14
Railroad operations and maintenance	10

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 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021DODGE007
6 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-DODGE-017
4 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020DODGE016
30 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-DODGE-021
3 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this place

6 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dempsey in 6 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Dempsey	$7,000	The public reported that a metal hay barn was destroyed along Bell Line Road.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Dempsey	$4,000	Dodge County Emergency Management reported trees blown down along Orphans Cemetery Road and Highway 280 near Sand Grove Baptist Church.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Dempsey	$3,000	The Dodge County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down southwest through west of Eastman.
January 2015	Tornado (EF1)	Dempsey	$3,000	An NWS survey team found that the same storm that produced two brief tornadoes in Pulaski County produced a brief EF1 tornado in central Dodge County. The tornado, with maximum wind speeds of 95 MPH and a maximum path width of 120 yards, touched down southwest of the intersection of Log Cabin Road and Antioch Church Road and traveled just 0.32 miles through the intersection before dissipating. Around a dozen trees were downed narrowly missing homes and cars. [01/04/15: Tornado #3, County #1-1, EF1, Dodge, 2015:003].
December 2009	Flood	Dempsey	$3,000	The Dodge County Emergency Management Director reported minor flooding of some roads and property across the county, mostly adjacent to overflowing creeks and streams. Eight roads across the county were flooded and closed. Monetary damage was confined to minor debris removal in these areas.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Dempsey	$1,000	The Dodge County 911 center reported a tree blown down onto power lines at the intersection of Antioch Church Road and Apple Lane.

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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
Dodge High	1.2 miles	9
Gresston	2.9 miles	10
Dubois	4.4 miles	10
Eastman	4.6 miles	9
Carne (historical)	5.6 miles	10
Lowery	6.4 miles	9
Amoskeag (historical)	6.8 miles	9
Beehive (historical)	6.9 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 348114. 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.