Heidrich, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Davisboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31018. It stands on Tippie Branch. The Survey maps it on the Riddleville quadrangle.

Heidrich within Washington County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Riddleville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Dublin quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

249 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 249 fires within 5 miles of Heidrich between 1992 and 2020, burning about 881 acres in total. 23 started naturally. 19 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	136
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Natural	23
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Arson/incendiarism	19
Smoking	9
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
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
5 September 2002	Debris and open burning	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-WASHINGTON-025
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-WASHINGTON-004
25 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-WASHINGTON-024
23 September 2020	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021WASHINGTON004
20 September 2003	Debris and open burning	25 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1995	Debris and open burning	4.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

4 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heidrich in 4 storm reports between 2019 and 2023: 2 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 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
September 2020	Flash Flood	Heidrich	$50,000	The transportation department reported multiple washouts of State Route 24 due to high water conditions from Sun Hill Creek and nearby tributaries, with partial or complete collapses of the roadway at several locations. Radar estimates indicate that 8 to 10 inches of rain occurred in the area, resulting in the flash flooding.
March 2019	Tornado (EF1)	Heidrich	$50,000	A National Weather Service survey found that an EF1 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 95 mph and a maximum path width of 85 yards touched down east of Harrison Davisboro Road along Heards Bridge Road in eastern Washington County. The short-lived tornado crossed Heards Bridge Road damaging a farm outbuilding. An older, reinforced concrete silo collapsed bringing down power lines and leaving concrete debris scattered across a field. No injuries were reported. [03/03/19: Tornado #13, County #1/1, EF1, Washington, 2019:018].
September 2020	Flash Flood	Heidrich	$20,000	The Emergency Manager reported State Route 24 near Prosser Road - between Sandersville and Davisboro - washed out due to high water from a nearby creek. Radar estimates indicate that 6 to 8 inches of rain occurred over the area, resulting in the flash flooding and damaged roadway.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Heidrich	$1,000	The 911 call center reported a tree down at McCoy Pond Rd and Hwy 24 E.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Rose	0.5 miles	8
Davisboro	2.3 miles	7
Halls Crossing	3.3 miles	10
Sun Hill	4.5 miles	8
Tanner	4.8 miles	8
Riddleville	4.9 miles	8
Downs	6.3 miles	10
Silas (historical)	8.1 miles	11

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 Q122540713

The 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 348331. 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.