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Green Acres, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1998. It stands in the Athens census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30605. The Survey maps it on the Athens East quadrangle.

Green Acres within Clarke County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

89 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 89 fires within 5 miles of Green Acres between 1992 and 2019, burning about 240 acres in total. 2 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
Arson/incendiarism31
Debris and open burning28
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Smoking4
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Recreation and ceremony2
Natural2

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
30 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-OCONEE-002
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1998Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 August 2011Misuse of fire by a minor3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-CLARKE-001
2 August 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020OGLETHORPE005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clarke County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Green Acres: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Athens QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
The Georgia Loan & Trust Co. MineIronPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clarke County

Storms near this place

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Green Acres in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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
August 2015Thunderstorm WindGreen Acres$50,000The Clarke County 911 Center reported numerous trees and power lines blown down with some damage to homes and businesses. Locations included Broad Street, Hancock Avenue, College Avenue and Memorial Park.
January 2023Flash FloodGreen Acres$10,000The Athens Banner Herald reported flooding inside their office building on S Milledge Avenue. Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 4 inches of rain occurred in the area, resulting in the flooding.
August 2019Thunderstorm WindGreen Acres$3,000The Clarke County 911 center reported trees blown down near South Milledge Avenue and Davis Street and near Riverbend Road and College Station Road.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGreen Acres$1,000Photo of a large tree down on a car along Barrentt Shoals Rd near Forest .
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGreen Acres-Report of multiple trees down on Milledge Ave near East Campus Rd.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGreen Acres-Report of tree down on car in Parkway Dr near Greenwood Dr.
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGreen Acres-Report of tree and powerlines down at Pinecrest Ct and Pinecrest Dr.
March 2012HailGreen Acres-The public reported that dime size hail fell in the Barnett Shoals Road area of Athens.

Every storm recorded in Clarke 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
Clarkedale0.3 miles13
Ashton Place0.5 miles13
Crestwood Estates0.5 miles13
Cedar Bluff0.6 miles13
Park East0.7 miles13
Ansley Park0.7 miles13
Snapfinger0.8 miles13
Cedar Shoals Estates0.9 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331861. 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.