Dowdy, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Colbert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30646. It stands on South Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hull quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Dowdy within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1891 USGS Carnesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hull quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

225 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 225 fires within 5 miles of Dowdy (historical) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 320 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 20 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	134
Arson/incendiarism	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	19
Smoking	17
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
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
9 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-MADISON-009
7 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	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 Madison 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
Diamond Rock (historical)	1.1 miles	14
Hull	1.4 miles	14
Dogsboro	1.8 miles	14
Patterson	1.9 miles	14
Diamond Hill	2.1 miles	14
Neese	3.6 miles	14
Colbert	3.6 miles	14
Sanford	4.8 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 335489. 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.