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Faceville, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Faceville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39819. The Survey maps it on the Faceville quadrangle. 136 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 305 feet above sea level.

Faceville within Decatur County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

176 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 176 fires within 5 miles of Faceville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 578 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 36 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 burning106
Arson/incendiarism36
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Smoking5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
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
29 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 1994Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 1997Natural34 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2009Debris and open burning5.0 acresFlorida Forest Service(20) COX RD FIRE
21 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceDUSTY HOUSE RD (20)
19 July 1996Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Decatur 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 Faceville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Clay. 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
Milwhite Co. Macall MineClayProducerAttapulgite, Montmorillonite

Every working recorded in Decatur County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Faceville in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 death and 2 injuries. 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 2013LightningFaceville1 killed, 2 hurtLightning struck Lady Moon Farms, resuling in 1 fatality and 2 injuries.
November 1997Thunderstorm WindFaceville$5,000Severe thunderstorm winds toppled trees and power lines along Georgia Highway 97 near Faceville.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindFaceville$2,000A tree was blown down onto a power line on Faceville Highway.
December 2012Thunderstorm WindFaceville$2,000Trees were blown down on Highway 97 South. Monetary damage was estimated.
November 2011Thunderstorm WindFaceville$750A tree was blown down on Highway 97 South. Monetary damage was estimated.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindFaceville-A tree was blown down along Faceville Attapulgus Road.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindFaceville-A tree was blown down on Quincy Highway and Bettstown Road.

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
Hannatown3.3 miles13
Recovery5.2 miles11
Fowlstown6.0 miles11
Attapulgus8.3 miles12
Laingkat8.4 miles12
Bethany8.5 miles11
Jinks10.1 miles13
Bainbridge10.9 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 FacevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5428532The 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 314022. 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.