Dry Branch, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the North Twiggs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31020. The Survey maps it on the Dry Branch quadrangle.

Dry Branch within Twiggs County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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.

1956 USGS Gordon quadrangle1:62500
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Dry Branch quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

717 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 717 fires within 5 miles of Dry Branch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,953 acres in total. 26 started naturally. 114 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	330
Arson/incendiarism	114
Railroad operations and maintenance	65
Equipment and vehicle use	53
Smoking	41
Misuse of fire by a minor	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Natural	26
Recreation and ceremony	17

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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-TWIGGS-011
6 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-TWIGGS-006
30 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1999	Smoking	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-TWIGGS-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Twiggs County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Dry Branch: 30 past producers, 17 producers, 6 occurrences. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Kaolin. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Fullers Earth Mine	Fullers Earth	Past Producer
General Reduction Co. Mine	Kaolin, Aluminum	Past Producer
Georgia Kaolin Mine No. 11	Aluminum	Past Producer
Nord Kaolin Company	Clay, Kaolin	Occurrence
Franklinton Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Sand Deposit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Alluvium
Dry Branch Mill	Clay	Producer
Georgia Kaolin Company.	Clay	Occurrence
J.M. Huber	Clay	Occurrence
Mine	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Twiggs County

Storms near this place

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dry Branch in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 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
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Dry Branch	$150,000	The Twiggs County Emergency Management Director and the 911 Center reported that dozens of trees and power lines were down from Dry Branch to Jeffersonville, with a few other trees and power lines down in other parts of the county as well. The hardest hit areas were in Dry Branch and Jeffersonville. In Dry Branch, multiple trees were down on Georgia Kaoline Road. One large tree was down on a home in Dry Branch with people trapped inside the structure. In Jeffersonville, more than a dozen trees were down just within the city limits.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Dry Branch	$10,000	The Twiggs County 911 Center reported that many trees were blown down across the county. Several roads were blocked as a result. The most significant damage appeared to be along Georgia Highway 96 in the southern part of the county from Tarversville eastward to near Danville.
May 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Dry Branch	$5,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that the EF2 tornado, which initially touched down near Lizella in western Bibb county and tracked through the city of Macon, crossed into Twiggs county as a weaker EF0 tornado near the city of Dry Branch. Only tree and power line damage was observed within this portion of the track of the tornado. The maximum path width of this tornado was estimated to be 100 yards.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Dry Branch	$5,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that straight-line winds of estimated at 60 to 70 mph caused damage to several trees and power lines up to three miles south of the track of an EF1 tornado that tracked from near Fitzpatrick to 4 1/3 miles southeast of Myricks Mill.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Dry Branch	$3,000	The Twiggs county 911 center reported trees down on U.S. Highway 80 at Dry Branch.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Dry Branch	$2,000	The Twiggs County 911 Center and Twiggs County Emergency Management Director reported that four trees were down across the north part of the county. Trees were down on Sgoda Road, Fountain Road, Long Street Road, and Georgia Highway 18.
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Dry Branch	$1,000	The Twiggs County 911 Center reported that three trees were down near Bullard. WSR-88D velocity data suggests that strong winds from a thunderstorm downburst in Bibb county likely also affected the Dry Branch area, as there was damage on the Bibb county side of the line.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Dry Branch	$1,000	The Twiggs County Sheriff's Office reported that a couple of trees were down, one on Sgoda Road and another on Marion Road in the northwest part of the county. A power line was also down on Marion Road.
July 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Dry Branch	$1,000	Oconee EMC reported trees and power lines down.
April 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Dry Branch	$500	The Twiggs county 911 center reported that a few trees had been blown down. Pea-sized hail was also reported in the area.
March 2011	Hail	Dry Branch	-	Amatuer radio operators relayed reports of quarter-sized hail across northern Twiggs county, especially near Dry Branch.
September 2011	Hail	Dry Branch	-	The public observed quarter-sized hail in the Dry Branch area near the Bibb county line.
July 2008	Hail	Dry Branch	-	The Twiggs County Emergency Management Director reported penny-sized hail from the Dry Branch area along the Bibb/Twiggs county line.
April 2005	Hail	Dry Branch	-	The public reported nickel-sized hail.
May 2002	Hail	Dry Branch	-	The Twiggs county 911 center reported quarter size hail.
April 1998	Hail	Dry Branch	-	Dime to quarter size hail was reported.
May 1997	Hail	Dry Branch	-	Dime to quarter sized hail reported.
April 1997	Hail	Dry Branch	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Twiggs 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
Fitzpatrick	4.8 miles	11
Myricks Mill	6.6 miles	10
Reids	6.8 miles	11
Ripley	6.8 miles	11
Huber	7.3 miles	11
Marion	10.1 miles	11
Jeffersonville	11.2 miles	11
Bullard	11.7 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355553. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.