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Jefferson, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31024. It stands on Jacks Fork. The Survey maps it on the Harmony quadrangle.

Jefferson within Putnam County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

123 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 123 fires within 5 miles of Jefferson between 1992 and 2019, burning about 429 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 9 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 burning69
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural10
Smoking9
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
9 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2005Equipment and vehicle use6.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Arson/incendiarism5.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1994Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PUTNAM-007
24 September 1996Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

2 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jefferson in 2 storm reports in 2023: 2 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
August 2023HailJefferson-Golf ball sized hail reported near the intersection of Harmony Ln and Harmony Rd.
August 2023HailJefferson-Golfball hail reported at hwy 44 and Thunder Rd.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Glades Cross-Roads1.2 miles12
Rudden1.4 miles12
Harmony2.2 miles12
Spivey (historical)4.0 miles12
Turnwold5.1 miles12
Phoenix6.0 miles10
Reids Crossroads6.7 miles10
The Glades (historical)8.0 miles10

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 Q49355310The 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 332092. 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.