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Houston Lake, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Perry census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31069. It stands on Donelson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Perry East quadrangle.

Houston Lake within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

390 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 390 fires within 5 miles of Houston Lake between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,152 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 52 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 burning194
Arson/incendiarism52
Misuse of fire by a minor47
Equipment and vehicle use40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Smoking15
Natural12
Recreation and ceremony9

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 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use8.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2014Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-HOUSTON-006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston 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 Houston Lake: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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
Bear Creek Road QuarryKaolinOccurrence
Kathleen QuarryKaolinProducer

Every working recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

10 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Houston Lake in 10 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2015Thunderstorm WindHouston Lake$4,000Several reports of trees blown down from the Lake Joy and Houston Lake area to Bob White Road in Kathleen were received from the broadcast media.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHouston Lake$2,000Trees and powerline reported down near the intersection of Lake Joy Rd and N. Lake Srive.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHouston Lake$2,000Emergency manager reported a tree and powerlines down along Raven Ave.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindHouston Lake$1,000Tree down on 800 block of Hawks Nest Dr.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHouston Lake$1,000Report of a tree down onto power lines on Lake Joy Rd.
September 2023HailHouston Lake-Report of Ping-Pong sized hail near the intersection of Langston Rd and Lake Joy Rd.
September 2023HailHouston Lake-Report of 1 inch hail on Kendall Ct.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindHouston Lake-Tree and powerlines down near intersection of Bear Branch Rd and Ivory Dr.
June 2012HailHouston Lake-Amateur radio operators relayed a report of nickel sized hail lasting for four minutes in central Houston County.
December 2021HailHouston Lake-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Houston Lake Woods0.4 miles12
The Heather on Houston Lake0.9 miles12
Wildwood Estates1.0 miles11
Beaver Creek1.0 miles12
Fox Ridge Estates1.6 miles11
Willow Run1.6 miles11
Shady Grove2.0 miles12
South Pointe2.4 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332033. 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.