BlockFive Points, Georgia
8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Pineview census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31079. It stands on Bear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Pineview West quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 8 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.
- 1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1971 USGS Pineview West quadrangle1:24000
- 1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
- 1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
Fires near this place
211 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Five Points between 1992 and 2020, burning about 912 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 22 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 | 141 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020DOOLY008 |
| 24 September 2008 | Debris and open burning | 1.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | 9.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020PULASKI006 |
| 2 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 19 September 2013 | Debris and open burning | 6.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2014-DOOLY-001 |
| 15 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 15 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Five Points in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2013: 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2009 | Tornado (EF1) | Five Points | $25,000 | A survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City confirmed that the EF1 tornado, that initially touched down in far northeast Sumter county, continued across far southern Dooly county, before ending just inside Wilcox county, approximately five miles north of Seville. The tornado tracked a little over one mile within Wilcox county with a maximum path width of 250 yards and maximum winds estimated at 110 mph. Within Wilcox county, only around 100 downed trees were noted along the path of the tornado. |
| March 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | Five Points | $5,000 | The Wilcox County 911 Center reported trees and power lines blown down county wide. |
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.
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326285. 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.