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Jones, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1920 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Townsend census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31323. It lies near Horsepen Island. The Survey maps it on the Riceboro quadrangle.

Jones within McIntosh County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 14 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

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Jones between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,054 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 100 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
Arson/incendiarism100
Debris and open burning41
Natural14
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-MCINTOSH-020
2 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MCINTOSH-008
3 August 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2002Natural2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-SCREVEN-017
15 August 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 August 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-MCINTOSH-002
10 August 2004Arson/incendiarism2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in McIntosh County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jones in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2019Thunderstorm WindJones-The McIntosh County 911 Call Center reported a tree down on Jones Road.
August 2009HailJones-Law Enforcement reported quarter size hail in Jones, Georgia.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindJones-Several trees and large limbs were down.

Every storm recorded in McIntosh 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
Brickston1.6 miles13
Warsaw3.1 miles13
Chimney Villa4.3 miles13
South Newport4.4 miles14
Huxford5.4 miles13
Townsend6.9 miles13
Eulonia7.5 miles13
Pine Harbor8.1 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 316203. 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.