BlockDouglasville, Georgia
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Damascus census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39813. The Survey maps it on the Damascus quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
- 1974 USGS Damascus quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Camilla quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
142 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Douglasville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,398 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 19 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 | 88 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 19 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 19 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020EARLY012 |
| 26 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020EARLY010 |
| 22 September 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 4.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-EARLY-012 |
| 2 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-EARLY-013 |
| 17 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020EARLY005 |
| 15 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | 18 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2021Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Douglasville in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2021 | Thunderstorm Wind | Douglasville | $10,000 | A tree was blown down onto a truck near Highway 45 and Billy Newberry Road. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rowena | 2.7 miles | 8 | |
| Nicholasville | 3.0 miles | 8 | |
| Douglass Crossroads | 3.9 miles | 8 | |
| Crossroads | 4.0 miles | 8 | |
| Damascus | 4.9 miles | 8 | |
| Old Damascus | 5.1 miles | 8 | |
| Bancroft | 9.8 miles | 8 | |
| New Hope | 10.3 miles | 8 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331583. 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.