Ethridge, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Round Oak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31033. The Survey maps it on the Resseaus Crossroads quadrangle.

Ethridge within Jones County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Resseaus Crossroads quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Ethridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 572 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 burning	103
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Arson/incendiarism	13
Natural	9
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	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
2 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JONES004
2 September 1997	Debris and open burning	4.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-JONES-006
16 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1997	Debris and open burning	5.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 1999	Debris and open burning	5.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Storms near this place

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ethridge in 4 storm reports between 2007 and 2021: 2 flash flood, 1 lightning, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2021	Flash Flood	Ethridge	$15,000	The Emergency Manager reported the Union Hill Church Road bridge was washed out, likely due to high water on Cedar Creek. Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 4.5 inches of rain occurred over the area, resulting in the flash flooding.
June 2007	Lightning	Ethridge	$5,000	The Jones County Emergency Management Director reported that a home was struck by lightning along Homer Childs Road near U.S. Highway 129 causing minor damage to the structure.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Ethridge	$2,000	The Jones County 911 center reported a couple of trees blown down along the Eatonton Highway between Homer Chiles Road and Stallings Road.
October 2021	Flash Flood	Ethridge	-	The Emergency Manager reported the Highway 44 bridge was closed due to high water on Big Cedar Creek. Radar estimates indicate that 4 to 8 inches of rain occurred over the Big Cedar Creek basin, resulting in the flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Jones 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
Blountsville	1.9 miles	10
Stallings (historical)	3.5 miles	10
Fortville	5.6 miles	10
Haddock	7.3 miles	10
Bradley	7.3 miles	11
Pine Ridge	7.8 miles	10
Round Oak	8.0 miles	11
Campbell (historical)	8.3 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331670. 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.