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Gladesville, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Hillsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31064. It stands on Crow Branch. The Survey maps it on the Berner quadrangle.

Gladesville within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Gladesville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 950 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 20 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 burning69
Arson/incendiarism20
Equipment and vehicle use17
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony10
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Smoking7
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
5 September 2019Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JASPER003
11 September 2016Natural1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-JASPER-004
7 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2011Railroad operations and maintenance1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MONROE-002
22 August 2007Equipment and vehicle use16 acresChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestROUND HOLE
19 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreChattahoochee-Oconee National ForestJASPER
19 August 1999Smoking1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 August 1999Equipment and vehicle use2.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Gladesville: 3 past producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Feldspar, Vermiculite. 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
Athen ProspectVermiculite, MicaProspect
C H Greer MineVermiculitePast Producer
Feldspar Corp Jasper Quarry AFeldsparPast Producer
Feldspar Corp. Jasper Quarry BFeldsparPast Producer
Arnall ProspectMicaOccurrence
Bell Cochran ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gladesville in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2013: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013Thunderstorm WindGladesville$2,500The Jasper County Emergency Manager reported 10 trees down just west of Monticello.
May 2008HailGladesville-An amateur radio operator observed penny-sized hail in Hillsboro. Radar supported that hail this size or larger fell across much of southern Jasper county from the Butts county line east-southeastward to the Jones county line.

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Kunsford (historical)2.3 miles12
McElheneys Crossroads3.5 miles14
Adgateville6.0 miles12
Minneta7.2 miles11
Hillsboro7.3 miles12
Benton Crossing (historical)8.4 miles11
Goolsby8.7 miles12
Smiths Mill (historical)9.1 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356030. 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.