Devereux, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Devereux census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31087. The Survey maps it on the Devereux quadrangle.

Devereux within Hancock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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.

1912 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Devereux quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

271 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 271 fires within 5 miles of Devereux between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,336 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 22 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	144
Equipment and vehicle use	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Arson/incendiarism	22
Natural	20
Smoking	10
Recreation and ceremony	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
7 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HANCOCK-002
4 September 2010	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HANCOCK-003
30 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HANCOCK-025
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-HANCOCK-007
26 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-HANCOCK-006
22 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1997	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 Hancock County

Storms near this place

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Devereux in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2012: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2007	Flood	Devereux	$300,000	The Hancock County Emergency Management Director reported that repeated heavy rain fell across much of the county from mid morning until shortly after midnight. Rainfall of six to eight inches fell across much of the county. Georgia Highway 22 and 16 were both closed. In addition, several wooden bridges were washed out. Disaster funding was provided for road and bridge repair from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the county. Estimated repair costs were in the $300,000 to $400,000 range.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Devereux	$100,000	The Hancock County Emergency Management Director reported that dozens of trees were down across the county, including several on homes. Several people were trapped in homes from downed trees, but no injuries were reported.
March 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Devereux	$100,000	The Hancock County Emergency Management Director reported that numerous trees and power lines were down along or near Georgia Highways 22 and 16 from Devereux, to Sparta, to Culverton, to Mayfield. Fifteen homes were damaged from downed trees.
March 2010	Hail	Devereux	$2,000	The Hancock County Emergency Management Director relayed a report of golf ball-sized hail from the western part of the county, northwest of Sparta. The public observed golf ball-sized hail just north of Devereux, also in western Hancock county.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Devereux	$2,000	no account filed
November 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Devereux	$1,000	The Hancock County Emergency Management Director reported that two trees and one power line were down near Lake Sinclair.
July 2012	Hail	Devereux	-	The public reported quarter-sized hail south of Devereux.
March 2008	Hail	Devereux	-	The public observed penny-sized hail.
June 1999	Hail	Devereux	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hancock 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
Sandy Run	2.9 miles	14
Glenford (historical)	3.3 miles	10
Harpertown (historical)	4.0 miles	13
Zebulon	4.7 miles	13
Beulah	5.6 miles	13
Sparta	6.3 miles	10
Buckhead (historical)	6.4 miles	14
Howell Grove	7.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355481. 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.