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Gladys, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Alapaha census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31622. The Survey maps it on the Alapaha quadrangle.

Gladys within Berrien County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

162 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Gladys between 1992 and 2020, burning about 970 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 16 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 burning112
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking1
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
6 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BERRIEN014
29 September 2006Arson/incendiarism21 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burning3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BERRIEN013
24 September 2019Debris and open burning6.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BERRIEN011
24 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BERRIEN010
24 September 2019Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BERRIEN009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Berrien County

Storms near this place

4 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gladys in 4 storm reports between 2014 and 2024: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
May 2024Thunderstorm WindGladys$100,000Damage to homes, vehicles, barns, chicken houses, and crops occurred across northern Berrien county. Trees were blown down on cars and homes with power lines down as well.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindGladys-A tree was down on Wycliff Roberts Road.
December 2014Flash FloodGladys-Several roads were flooded in the western and northern portions of Berrien county due to heavy rainfall in a short period of time.
May 2024HailGladys-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Berrien 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
Alapaha5.9 miles8
Enigma6.2 miles9
Glory8.6 miles8
Bannockburn16.0 miles8
Weber16.9 miles8
Nashville18.1 miles8
Cottle19.0 miles8
Allenville23.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331812. 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.