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Jordan Place, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Leesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31763. The Survey maps it on the Neyami quadrangle.

Jordan Place within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

233 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 233 fires within 5 miles of Jordan Place between 1992 and 2019, burning about 971 acres in total. 11 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 burning141
Arson/incendiarism24
Equipment and vehicle use19
Misuse of fire by a minor18
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony3

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 1997Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2002Smoking5.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LEE-011
6 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LEE-010
4 September 1995Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning6.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020LEE007
27 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Arson/incendiarism1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020LEE004
22 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minor4.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee 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 Jordan Place: 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Bauxite MineAluminumPast Producer
Dobson MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Leesburg Sand Co MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jordan Place in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 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
September 2011Thunderstorm WindJordan Place$3,000A few trees were blown down in the western part of the county. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindJordan Place$1,000A pine tree fell on a power line on Armena Road, likely due to outflow winds from a storm just to the north.
April 2020FloodJordan Place-Minor road flooding occurred at Highway 19 and Pinewood Road.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindJordan Place-A few trees and power lines were blown down along Highway 32.
January 2012HailJordan Place-Hail the size of quarters was estimated along Pinewood Road.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Leesburg2.6 miles10
Starksville3.5 miles9
Byne Crossroads4.1 miles10
Neyami4.7 miles9
Mossy Dell5.1 miles10
Century5.9 miles10
Oakland6.3 miles10
Armena6.6 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326350. 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.