Joel, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Bowdon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30108. It stands on Becks Creek. The Survey maps it on the Roopville quadrangle.

Joel within Carroll County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1899 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000
1902 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Roopville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

165 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 165 fires within 5 miles of Joel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 720 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 40 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	68
Arson/incendiarism	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Natural	5
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2018	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019CARROLL003
21 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-CARROLL-013
16 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HEARD-005
21 August 2001	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-CARROLL-003
20 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 August 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Carroll 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
Tyus	2.0 miles	11
Veal	2.8 miles	11
Bucktown	2.8 miles	13
Victory	2.9 miles	15
Stoney Point	3.3 miles	11
Mabry (historical)	4.0 miles	11
Bowdon	4.4 miles	16
Fairview (historical)	4.4 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332103. 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.