Hayston, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mansfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30055. The Survey maps it on the Covington quadrangle.

Hayston within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

1896 USGS Monroe quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Covington quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

212 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 212 fires within 5 miles of Hayston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 626 acres in total. 13 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 burning	112
Arson/incendiarism	25
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Smoking	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
26 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-JASPER-004
20 September 2013	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-NEWTON-001
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-NEWTON-012
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hayston in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2019: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Hayston	$10,000	The Newton County 911 center reported numerous trees blown down across the county from around Dixie Road and Elks Club Road. Time estimated from radar.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Hayston	$3,000	The Newton County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down along Macedonia Road bear the intersection with Poplar Hill Road.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Mansfield Estates	0.9 miles	17
Silver Lake	1.3 miles	17
Jerusalem	1.4 miles	16
Mansfield	1.8 miles	16
Brookwood East	2.4 miles	17
Jamestown	2.7 miles	17
Avalon	2.9 miles	12
Starrsville	3.1 miles	17

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331938. 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.