Fort Benning, Georgia

23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1908 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Benning census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31905. It lies near Humphreys Hill. The Survey maps it on the Fort Benning quadrangle.

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Fort Benning within Chattahoochee County

On record in Fort Benning

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Riversidelisted 1971

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 23 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.

1908 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
1929 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:48000
1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1950 USGS Fort Benning quadrangle1:24000
1955 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:62500
1955 USGS Fort Benning quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Photographs

8 of 40 photographs shown, 1940 to 1942

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Ready to make port. Student paratrooper at Fort Benning, Georgia, who bailed out of a plane a few minutes ago, is about ready to take the ground and perform the little chore of getting his chute under control
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer, 1942. Library of Congress

Fort Benning. Aerial machine gunners. Four aces. This crack aerial machine gunner is part of the unbeatable combination. He has a fast, accurate gun and the world's best in the way of plane and pilot
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer, 1942. Library of Congress

Fort Benning. Machine gunner, armored forces. Our armored forces have tremendous fire power. These gunners on a halftrac scout car make the .30 caliber Browning one of the most destructive of modern weapons
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer, 1942. Library of Congress

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Uncle Sam picks a high type of man for a parachute infantryman. This student paratrooper at Fort Benning, Goergia has just completed a descent of which any oldtimer would be proud
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer, 1942. Library of Congress

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Look at that boy come, riding a chute like an oldtimer. A student paratrooper at Fort Benning, Georgia has wind currents to think about, and he has his mind on the spot where he wnats to land. He's learning to make the kind of a landfall he wants
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer, 1942. Library of Congress

Fort Benning. Parachute troops. Ready to make port. A student paratrooper at Fort Benning, Georgia who bailed out of a plane a few minutes ago is about ready to take the ground and perform the little chore of getting his chute under control
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer, 1942. Library of Congress

Fort Benning. Halftrac scout cars. America's irresistable might grows every day. Soldiers of the armored forces training in halftrac scout cars at Fort Benning, Georgia are turning rapidly into hard, smart fighting men
Palmer, Alfred T., photographer, 1942. Library of Congress

Mr. Luigi De Angelis, who works in Belair Construction job building defense housing project. He came from Lexington, Virginia and lives alone in trailer and pays two dollars a week for space and electricity in yard of local boarding house on highway near Fort Benning, Georgia
Wolcott, Marion Post, 1940. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Chattahoochee County

Fires near this place

81 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Fort Benning between 1994 and 2020, burning about 857 acres in total. None started naturally. 14 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	32
Arson/incendiarism	14
Recreation and ceremony	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2

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 2016	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20160929-9
16 September 2019	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20190916-13
11 September 2002	Smoking	34 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-MUSCOGEE-001
4 August 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1999	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2000	Smoking	8.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
4 July 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named
17 July 2000	Smoking	3.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Chattahoochee County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Fort Benning: 11 producers, 1 past producer. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REE, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
No. 4 Mines	Clay	Past Producer
Woolfolk Mine	Clay	Producer
Chattahoochee River Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REE	Producer	Ilmenite, Kyanite, Quartz, Rutile, Zircon
Dixieland Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REE	Producer	Ilmenite, Kyanite, Quartz, Rutile, Zircon
Dixieland Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Kyanite, REE	Producer	Placer
Brown Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dixieland Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Kendrick Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Phenix Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Seale Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fort Benning in 2 storm reports in 1994: 1 hail, 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
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Fort Benning	$5,000	Numerous trees and large limbs were downed near the Post Exchange.
June 1994	Hail	Fort Benning	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chattahoochee 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
Woolfolk (historical)	0.8 miles	23
Shack (historical)	0.8 miles	23
McDaniel Manor	1.2 miles	23
Kasihta (historical)	1.6 miles	23
Cottage Mills (historical)	5.6 miles	23
Ochillee	7.2 miles	25
Central Springs	7.9 miles	25
Jamestown	8.8 miles	25

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 Fort Benning	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1438462	The 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 355875. 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.