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Duresville, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Macon East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31217. The Survey maps it on the Macon East quadrangle.

Duresville within Bibb County

On record in Duresville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

Fires near this place

407 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 407 fires within 5 miles of Duresville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 698 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 45 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 burning192
Arson/incendiarism45
Misuse of fire by a minor44
Equipment and vehicle use26
Smoking23
Railroad operations and maintenance21
Natural19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Recreation and ceremony18

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JONES009
20 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Debris and open burning23 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Duresville: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fullers Earth. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Pikes Peak Fuller's EarthFullers EarthPast ProducerCristobalite, Opal, Montmorillonite
Burns Brick Co MineClayProducer
Cherokee MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Bibb County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Duresville in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 1 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2023Thunderstorm WindDuresville$3,000Several trees down on Riggins Mill Rd near the Ga-87 Connector and Hwy 80.
July 2008HailDuresville-The public reported penny-sized hail in the extreme eastern part of the county near the Jones county line. In addition, one large pine tree was blown down.

Every storm recorded in Bibb 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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Bristol Forest0.3 miles14
Lakeside Hill0.5 miles14
Shirlington0.6 miles14
Weaver Heights0.7 miles14
Morningside0.7 miles14
Cross Keys0.7 miles14
Groveland0.8 miles14
Mogul1.0 miles14

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 Q122542955The 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 1672101. 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.