Ducker, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the West Dougherty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31721. It stands on Mud Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pretoria quadrangle.

Ducker within Dougherty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Sasser quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1973 USGS Pretoria quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Ducker between 1992 and 2020, burning about 455 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None was 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	49
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	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
5 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-DOUGHERTY-002
30 August 1997	Debris and open burning	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 2006	Debris and open burning	4.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 July 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CALHOUN-001
9 June 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2000-DOUGHERTY-066

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dougherty County

Storms near this place

3 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ducker in 3 storm reports between 2017 and 2018: 3 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
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Ducker	-	A tree was blown down near the 300 block of Valencia Dr as well as Leary Road near Pine Island.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Ducker	-	Trees were blown down across the 400 block of Mud Creek Road.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Ducker	-	The Georgia Automated Environmental Monitoring site at Ducker measured a wind gust of 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Dougherty 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
Walker	2.9 miles	10
Pretoria	3.0 miles	10
Gillionville	5.5 miles	9
Gillionville Forest	6.3 miles	10
Lockett Crossing	6.3 miles	10
Brookhollow	6.6 miles	10
Springfield	6.6 miles	10
Indian Creek	6.6 miles	10

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 Q122545001

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 326251. 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.