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Halcyondale, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Newington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30467. The Survey maps it on the Oliver quadrangle.

Halcyondale within Screven County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 16 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

203 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 203 fires within 5 miles of Halcyondale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,279 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 25 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 burning138
Arson/incendiarism25
Natural12
Equipment and vehicle use11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burning10 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020SCREVEN008
27 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-SCREVEN-011
24 September 2005Debris and open burning4.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-BULLOCH-006
9 August 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BULLOCH-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Screven County

Storms near this place

2 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halcyondale in 2 storm reports between 1994 and 2011: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 1994Thunderstorm WindHalcyondale$5,000Emergency management officials reported numerous trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
September 2011Thunderstorm WindHalcyondale$500An NWS Employee reported a 10 inch diameter Oak branch down 4 miles South Southwest of Captolo.

Every storm recorded in Screven 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
Stalco2.1 miles16
Oliver3.7 miles16
Cameron4.2 miles16
Captolo6.0 miles16
Newington6.1 miles16
Eureka Springs (historical)6.4 miles16
Cooperville6.6 miles16
Dover6.7 miles16

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356138. 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.