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Joycliff Estates, 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 31211. The Survey maps it on the Macon NE quadrangle.

Joycliff Estates 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

447 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 447 fires within 5 miles of Joycliff Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 832 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 47 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 burning225
Misuse of fire by a minor48
Arson/incendiarism47
Equipment and vehicle use30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Natural21
Smoking18
Railroad operations and maintenance18
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
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
18 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JONES006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Joycliff Estates: 2 producers, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Fullers Earth, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Burns Brick Co MineClayProducer
Hitchcock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Pikes Peak Fuller's EarthFullers EarthPast ProducerCristobalite, Opal, Montmorillonite
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium

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
Bowden Hills0.3 miles12
Belvedere Manor0.5 miles14
Kings View0.5 miles12
Jones Acres1.5 miles12
Van Buren (historical)1.8 miles14
Postell3.5 miles12
Griswoldville4.5 miles10
Pitts5.2 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 Q122540473The 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 345370. 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.