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Edgewood Crossroads, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Crawfordville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30631. It stands on South Fork Little River. The Survey maps it on the Crawfordville quadrangle.

Edgewood Crossroads within Taliaferro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

130 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 130 fires within 5 miles of Edgewood Crossroads between 1992 and 2019, burning about 453 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 13 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 burning66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism13
Natural9
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Debris and open burning2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-TALIAFERRO-001
5 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1998Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taliaferro County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Edgewood Crossroads: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
HillmanGoldPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Taliaferro County

Storms near this place

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Edgewood Crossroads in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2022: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2008Flash FloodEdgewood Crossroads$2,500The Taliaferro County Sheriff's Department observed a flash flood along a stream that flows into Lick Creek, approximately 1.7 miles northeast of Crawfordville. The stream washed out a portion of Old Sandy Road, a dirt and rock road. Severe erosion occurred around the drainage culvert pipe.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEdgewood Crossroads-Multiple trees down or snapped near and along Saggus Rd.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindEdgewood Crossroads-Multiple trees down or snapped near and along Saggus Rd.

Every storm recorded in Taliaferro 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
Lyneville3.2 miles13
Springfield3.9 miles13
Crawfordville4.2 miles14
Hillman4.3 miles13
Sharon5.7 miles13
Robinson6.4 miles14
Carters Grove6.5 miles13
Raytown7.3 miles13

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 Q122541540The 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 326260. 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.