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Gordydale, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Waverly Hall census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31807. The Survey maps it on the Midland quadrangle.

Gordydale within Harris County

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 17 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

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Gordydale between 1992 and 2019, burning about 518 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 31 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 burning88
Arson/incendiarism31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking6
Natural6
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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
26 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Debris and open burning3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HARRIS-006
5 August 2015Natural1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-HARRIS-002
28 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HARRIS001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Harris County

Storms near this place

3 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gordydale in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
March 2025Thunderstorm WindGordydale$1,000A large tree down along highway 315 across from pine ridge elementary school.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindGordydale-Tree reported down at the intersection of Hwy 315 and Old Warm Springs Rd.
May 2018Flash FloodGordydale-Emergency Manager reported at least eight county roads in southern Harris county along Highway 27 that were experiencing flash flooding due to heavy rainfall. Radar estimates indicated that 6 to 6.5 inches of rainfall occurred in the warned area.

Every storm recorded in Harris 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
Ellerslie0.9 miles15
Ossahatchie3.0 miles15
Cataula3.6 miles15
Rehobeth3.9 miles16
Turntime Crossroads4.9 miles15
Ridgeway5.0 miles16
Waverly Hall5.8 miles16
Bayard (historical)6.0 miles16

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.

Wikidata item Q122567428The 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 350966. 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.