Dyas, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Culloden-Bolingbroke census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31029. It stands on Clifton Creek. The Survey maps it on the Moran quadrangle.

Dyas within Monroe 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 Bolingbroke quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Moran quadrangle1:24000
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

138 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 138 fires within 5 miles of Dyas between 1992 and 2020, burning about 352 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 10 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	87
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Arson/incendiarism	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
27 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MONROE-014
2 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021CRAWFORD002
26 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 August 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe 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 Dyas: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Forsyth Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Holloway Mine	Mica	Past Producer
Homer Hardin Mine	Mica	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dyas in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2014: 1 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
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Dyas	$500,000	The Monroe County 911 Center reported that hundreds of trees were down, especially in the southern part of the county. Three homes sustained minor to moderate damage as a result of the downed trees. Many parts of the county were left without power and some roads were temporarily blocked from downed trees, especially in the vicinity of Georgia Highway 74 and Georgia Highway 42.
November 2014	Tornado (EF1)	Dyas	$30,000	A NWS storm survey team found that an EF-1 tornado, with maximum wind speeds of 107 MPH, touched down in southwest Monroe County and moved northeast across the county before lifting near Juliette. Extensive tree damage was noted along the path with many trees snapped and uprooted. The tornado reached its peak intensity as it crossed Reedy Creek Road where several large hardwood trees were snapped. A barn collapsed at this location and another had its metal roof peeled off. A shed was destroyed and a tree fell on a house in Smarr. [11/23/14: Tornado #6, County #1-1, EF1, Monroe, 2014:023].

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Spring Hill (historical)	2.0 miles	10
Russellville	2.5 miles	10
Moran	3.5 miles	10
Bamah (historical)	3.5 miles	10
Culloden	5.3 miles	10
Strouds	5.3 miles	10
Brent	8.0 miles	10
Smarr	10.1 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326253. 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.