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Fowlstown, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Attapulgus census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39815. The Survey maps it on the Fowlstown quadrangle. It stands 292 feet above sea level.

Fowlstown 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

325 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 325 fires within 5 miles of Fowlstown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,171 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 55 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 burning234
Arson/incendiarism55
Equipment and vehicle use10
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Smoking7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural5
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
9 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DECATUR028
29 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DECATUR025
25 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DECATUR-012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Decatur County

Storms near this place

10 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fowlstown in 10 storm reports between 2008 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
February 2008Tornado (EF0)Fowlstown$75,000The same supercell thunderstorm which spawned the EF1 tornado in Gadsden County Florida produced a brief EF0 tornado about five miles west of Attapulgus. The tornado uprooted trees which fell on several homes along Stephens Jenkins Road.
December 2014Flash FloodFowlstown$5,000Priest Road was closed due to a washout from heavy rainfall in a short period of time. Monetary damage was estimated.
March 2013Thunderstorm WindFowlstown$3,000Several trees were blown down on Highway 309 near Baxley Road. Monetary damage was estimated.
April 2021Thunderstorm WindFowlstown$2,000Trees and power lines were blown down.
November 2014Thunderstorm WindFowlstown$1,000Trees were blown down near the Fowlstown area.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindFowlstown$1,000Several trees and power lines were down about seven miles south of Bainbridge.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindFowlstown-A downed tree resulted in a power outage across the area.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindFowlstown-A tree was blown down and resulted in a power outage.
March 2013HailFowlstown-Dime to nickel size hail was reported along Highway 309 S about 5 miles south of Bainbridge.
June 2011HailFowlstown-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
Attapulgus5.0 miles12
Otisco5.6 miles12
Faceville6.0 miles11
Laingkat6.5 miles12
Bainbridge7.1 miles12
Amsterdam7.9 miles12
Climax8.0 miles12
West Bainbridge8.7 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 FowlstownAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20065166The 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 355902. 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.