Drone, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Waynesboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30830. It stands on Rock Creek. The Survey maps it on the Gough quadrangle.

Drone within Burke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 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.

1919 USGS Gough quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1948 USGS Gough quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Gough quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Drone between 1992 and 2020, burning about 764 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 21 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	74
Arson/incendiarism	21
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Smoking	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
9 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-BURKE-004
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BURKE004
26 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-BURKE-006
19 September 2019	Debris and open burning	8.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BURKE006
18 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BURKE-024
15 September 2001	Debris and open burning	41 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-BURKE-011
15 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	3.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Burke 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
Gough	4.4 miles	16
Vidette	4.9 miles	16
Le Roy (historical)	5.4 miles	15
Elmore (historical)	5.5 miles	15
Walker Grove Settlement	6.5 miles	15
Rosier	6.9 miles	7
Hatchers Store	7.0 miles	15
Saint Clair	7.3 miles	15

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.

Wikipedia article on Drone	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q76644219	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 355551. 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.