Draneville, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Buena Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31803. The Survey maps it on the Draneville quadrangle.

Draneville within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Draneville quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Draneville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 638 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 18 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	95
Arson/incendiarism	18
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	10
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
24 September 2008	Smoking	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MARION-009
17 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 August 1993	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 Marion County

Storms near this place

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Draneville in 10 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 5 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
November 1997	Tornado (F1)	Draneville	$100,000	West of Draneville, nearly 50 trees were knocked down and several grain silos and out-buildings were damaged. A church just southeast of Draneville on highway 30 was destroyed. Its roof was blown into a nearby orchard, where 116 pecan trees were also destroyed. The roof of a youth center was lifted off. A gas station/grocery store sustained minor damage.
March 2013	Hail	Draneville	$41,370	The Marion County Emergency Manager reported that widespread dime-sized hail covered the ground along Georgia Highway 30. Some of the hailstones were as large as golfballs.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Draneville	$1,000	The Marion County 911 center reported a tree blown down near the intersection of Highway 41 south and Wiggins Road.
March 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Draneville	$1,000	The Marion County Emergency Management Director reported that a few trees were down along Georgia Highway 30 in the far southeast part of the county between Draneville and Friendship.
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Draneville	$1,000	no account filed
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Draneville	$750	A few power lines were pulled down by fallen trees along Georgia Highway 41, west of Draneville.
March 2024	Hail	Draneville	-	Local business reports golf ball sized hail near Mill Pond Rd and GA41.
June 2012	Hail	Draneville	-	The Draneville local store reported quarter sized hail.
May 2012	Hail	Draneville	-	The Marion County Emergency Manager reported that dime to penny sized hail fell south of Buena Vista.
April 2006	Hail	Draneville	-	The public reported penny-sized hail. Several large limbs were also broken out of oak trees in the area.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Church Hill	4.5 miles	8
Putnam	4.9 miles	8
Hoggs (historical)	5.6 miles	8
Doyle	5.6 miles	8
Berginville	7.4 miles	11
Buena Vista	7.6 miles	11
Pineville	7.7 miles	11
Elmview	8.0 miles	11

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 Q122595341

The 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 355548. 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.