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Graysville, Georgia

28 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1886 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Boynton Ridge census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30736. It lies near Bermuda Hill. The Survey maps it on the East Ridge quadrangle. It stands 702 feet above sea level.

Graysville within Catoosa County

On record in Graysville

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

14 surveys from 28 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

386 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 386 fires within 5 miles of Graysville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 675 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 53 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 burning203
Arson/incendiarism53
Equipment and vehicle use43
Misuse of fire by a minor26
Smoking23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony11
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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
8 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CATOOSA-005
8 September 1998Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CATOOSA-006
6 September 2002Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-CATOOSA-007
4 September 1998Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Catoosa County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Graysville: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Barium-Barite. 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
Shofner Barite ProspectBarium-BariteOccurrenceBarite
Shofner Barite ProspectBarium-BariteOccurrence
Clark QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Graysville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Hales QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Catoosa County

Storms near this place

7 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Graysville in 7 storm reports between 2001 and 2023: 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
August 2001Thunderstorm WindGraysville$500The public reported that two trees were blown down on a local road.
May 2005Thunderstorm WindGraysville$250The public reported that a very large nearly 200 year old tree was blown down.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindGraysville-Report of tree down on Swanson Rd.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindGraysville-Report of tree down on Swanson Rd.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindGraysville-A large tree and powerlines downed across Graysville Road.
May 2005HailGraysville-The public reported penny-sized hail.
May 2003HailGraysville-The public reported penny-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Catoosa 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
Opeleika (historical)0.1 miles28
Swanson Mill0.2 miles28
New Liberty1.0 miles28
Summit Hill1.5 miles28
Indian Springs1.8 miles28
Morris Estates1.9 miles28
Boyd Highlands2.1 miles28
Foster Hills2.2 miles28

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 GraysvilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19880093The 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 356089. 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.