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Greenberry Crossroads, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Gray-Macon East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31032. The Survey maps it on the James quadrangle.

Greenberry Crossroads within Jones County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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

331 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 331 fires within 5 miles of Greenberry Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 811 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 26 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 burning213
Arson/incendiarism26
Misuse of fire by a minor20
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony14
Smoking11
Natural6
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-JONES-003
23 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JONES008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jones 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 Greenberry Crossroads: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Kaolin. 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
Ga Kaolin Mine 71KaolinProducer
Weston & Brooker Co Ruby QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jones County

Storms near this place

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greenberry Crossroads in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 2021Tornado (EF0)Greenberry Crossroads$25,000A National Weather Service survey with information provided by the Jones County Emergency Manager found that the EF0 tornado with maximum wind speeds 75 mph and a maximum path width of 150 yards that began in southwestern Baldwin County crossed into Jones County just south of County Line Road NW. The tornado snapped trees as it crossed County Line Road NW and moved across a heavily wooded area northwest of County Line Road NW. [8/17/21: Tornado #5, County #2/2, EF-0, Baldwin/Jones, 2021:019].
June 2004Thunderstorm WindGreenberry Crossroads$1,000The Jones County 911 center reported that several trees were blown down.

Every storm recorded in Jones 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
James1.5 miles10
Pitts3.2 miles12
Cumslo3.6 miles12
Mountain Springs3.8 miles10
Morton4.4 miles12
Postell4.9 miles12
Pine Ridge5.2 miles10
Haddock5.5 miles10

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 Q122572063The 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 326306. 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.