BlockDyes Crossroad, Georgia
15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1919 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Keysville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30805. The Survey maps it on the Keysville quadrangle.
On record in Dyes Crossroad
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.
Hopeful Baptist Churchlisted 1993 · 0.7 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
9 surveys from 15 printed sheetsMatched 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 Keysville quadrangle1:24000, 2 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
244 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Dyes Crossroad between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,694 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 50 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 | 140 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 50 |
| Natural | 24 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1999 | Natural | 3.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2017-BURKE-014 |
| 26 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 8.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2014-BURKE-003 |
| 19 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | 6.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-BURKE-025 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grove Mount | 3.5 miles | 15 | |
| Brushy Creek (historical) | 4.0 miles | 15 | |
| Walker Grove Settlement | 4.4 miles | 15 | |
| Keysville | 4.8 miles | 15 | |
| Le Roy (historical) | 5.3 miles | 15 | |
| Saint Clair | 5.6 miles | 15 | |
| Elmore (historical) | 7.3 miles | 15 | |
| Gough | 9.2 miles | 16 |
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 Q122548775 | 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 355583. 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.