Gresston, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eastman census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31023. The Survey maps it on the Empire quadrangle.

Gresston within Dodge County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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.

1956 USGS Cochran quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Empire quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

669 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 669 fires within 5 miles of Gresston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,459 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 105 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 burning	418
Arson/incendiarism	105
Equipment and vehicle use	40
Recreation and ceremony	24
Misuse of fire by a minor	20
Natural	19
Railroad operations and maintenance	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Smoking	8

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-DODGE-015
6 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021DODGE007
6 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-DODGE-017
30 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020DODGE016
3 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dodge County

Storms near this place

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gresston in 10 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
January 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Gresston	$75,000	The Dodge County Emergency Manager reported that four houses sustained major roof damage and several barns were blown over.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Gresston	$50,000	The Dodge County 911 Center reported widespread damage to trees and power lines across the county. Structural damage was reported to some homes near Chauncey in southeast Dodge county when trees fell on the structures. This damage was in addition to the EF2 tornado that struck just outside the small community of Gresston, northwest of Eastman.
December 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Gresston	$10,000	A SkyWarn spotter reported that thunderstorm winds blew a tree down onto a house.
December 2005	Hail	Gresston	$5,000	Two reports of golf ball-sized hail across the northern portion of the county along U.S. Highway 23.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Gresston	$3,000	The Dodge County Emergency Manager reported that around a dozen trees were blown down from near Gresston to near Chauncey, with most of them down in the Eastman area. Several power outages were reported as well.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Gresston	$1,000	Tree down along bell line road .
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Gresston	$1,000	The Dodge County Fire and Rescue Department along with a trained spotter reported that at least four large trees were down in the western part of the county, along with several large limbs. One of the trees were down on Daniels Church Road in Eastman.
May 2020	Hail	Gresston	-	The public reported hail the size of quarters near the intersection of Highway 23 and Wilson Woodard Road.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Gresston	-	The public measured a wind gust of 63 mph in far northwest Dodge county near the Pulaski county line. No damage was reported from the area, however.
May 2009	Hail	Gresston	-	The Dodge County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail in the far northern part of the county between Gresston and Yonkers.

Every storm recorded in Dodge 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Dubois	1.6 miles	10
Carne (historical)	2.8 miles	10
Dempsey	2.9 miles	9
Dodge High	4.0 miles	9
Empire	4.4 miles	10
Roddy	4.6 miles	10
Yonkers	5.8 miles	8
Beehive (historical)	7.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331872. 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.