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Eldorendo, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Brinson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39837. The Survey maps it on the Boykin quadrangle. It stands 131 feet above sea level.

Eldorendo within Decatur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

253 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of Eldorendo between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,313 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 30 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 burning175
Arson/incendiarism30
Equipment and vehicle use17
Smoking12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
9 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-MILLER-006
6 September 1994Equipment and vehicle use5.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-DECATUR-011
29 September 2009Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DECATUR023
24 September 2010Debris and open burning4.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DECATUR-017
23 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DECATUR019
23 September 2018Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019DECATUR002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Decatur County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eldorendo in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2018: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
July 2018Thunderstorm WindEldorendo$25,000Multiple trees were blown down across northern Decatur county. One tree was down on a house and another tree was down on a car. Damage cost was estimated.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEldorendo$3,000Numerous trees were blown down across the county.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindEldorendo$3,000The 911 dispatch reported trees and power lines down due to wind. Monetary damage was estimated.
March 2016HailEldorendo-Dime size hail was reported along Highway 310 along the Decatur and Miller county line.
March 2000Funnel CloudEldorendo-A funnel cloud reported by the Decatur County EMA.
March 2011HailEldorendo-no account filed
March 2011HailEldorendo-no account filed
March 1996Tornado (F0)Eldorendo-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Decatur 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
Ausmac3.6 miles12
Lynn4.8 miles12
Cyrene6.0 miles11
Brinson6.5 miles11
Hanover7.0 miles11
West Bainbridge9.0 miles12
Mount Pleasant9.2 miles12
Bainbridge10.5 miles12

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.

Wikipedia article on EldorendoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5354124The 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 313895. 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.