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Jolly, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Zebulon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30292. The Survey maps it on the Concord quadrangle.

Jolly within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

244 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 244 fires within 5 miles of Jolly between 1992 and 2020, burning about 642 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 24 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 burning170
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony7
Natural7
Smoking6

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
8 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020PIKE002
7 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-PIKE-003
29 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020PIKE003
21 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-PIKE-001
20 September 1997Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PIKE-001
14 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Jolly: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Iron. 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
W.M.Hartley PropertyManganese, IronProspect

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

6 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jolly in 6 storm reports between 2022 and 2025: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindJolly$3,000Several trees down in vicinity of hollonville rd and hwy 18.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindJolly$2,000Two tree down near hollonville road and reidsboro road.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindJolly$2,000EM reports a few trees down and power out along Hollondville Rd just north of the intersection with Reidsboro Rd.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindJolly$1,000Em reports a tree down along zebulon hollonville rd near beaks rd.
February 2024Flash FloodJolly-The Emergency Manager reported Turner Road, between Concord Road and Milner Road, closed due to flooding of Birch Creek. Radar estimates indicate 4 to 6 inches of rain quickly fell over the area, resulting in the flash flooding.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindJolly-Report of multiple trees down near the intersection of Zebulon Hollonville Rd and Beeks Rd.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Smiths Chapel0.8 miles9
Reidsboro1.1 miles9
Bottoms1.7 miles9
Hilltop2.8 miles9
Zebulon2.9 miles9
Concord3.3 miles9
Beeks (historical)3.3 miles9
Williamson4.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326346. 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.