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Jones Acres, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Gray-Macon East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31217. The Survey maps it on the Macon NE quadrangle.

Jones Acres within Jones 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

472 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 472 fires within 5 miles of Jones Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 870 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 49 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 burning232
Misuse of fire by a minor53
Arson/incendiarism49
Equipment and vehicle use33
Natural25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Smoking20
Railroad operations and maintenance20
Recreation and ceremony17

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 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-TWIGGS-011
3 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JONES009
20 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Debris and open burning23 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Jones Acres: 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium
Hitchcock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Weston & Brooker Co Ruby QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jones 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
Van Buren (historical)0.4 miles14
Kings View1.2 miles12
Bowden Hills1.3 miles12
Joycliff Estates1.5 miles12
Belvedere Manor1.7 miles14
Postell2.9 miles12
Griswoldville3.0 miles10
Pitts4.4 miles12

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 Q122571502The 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 345366. 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.