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Goldsboro, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Northeast Bleckley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31065. The Survey maps it on the Chester quadrangle.

Goldsboro within Bleckley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

335 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 335 fires within 5 miles of Goldsboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,434 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 12 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 burning250
Equipment and vehicle use27
Natural17
Arson/incendiarism12
Smoking11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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
7 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BLECKLEY-006
7 September 1997Debris and open burning4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BLECKLEY-005
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BLECKLEY-011
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarism2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarism3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bleckley County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goldsboro in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2020Thunderstorm WindGoldsboro$5,000The Bleckley County 911 center reported trees blown down across the eastern end of the county including on Salem Church Road near Mullis White Road and along Highway 112 in the far northeast corner of the county.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindGoldsboro$2,000The Bleckley County 911 Center reported several trees and power lines down.
June 2002LightningGoldsboro$500The Bleckley county 911 center reported that lightning struck and set a tree on fire.

Every storm recorded in Bleckley 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
Powell1.7 miles8
Rebie2.8 miles8
Cary5.0 miles10
Brown Hill5.8 miles10
Five Points6.4 miles10
Royal8.2 miles10
Cochran9.0 miles10
Coley9.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 314679. 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.