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Kings Crossing, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Warner Robins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31005. It stands on Cainey Branch. The Survey maps it on the Warner Robins SE quadrangle.

Kings Crossing within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

289 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 289 fires within 5 miles of Kings Crossing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 744 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 48 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 burning104
Misuse of fire by a minor69
Arson/incendiarism48
Equipment and vehicle use19
Recreation and ceremony15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking10
Natural10
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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 1997Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Debris and open burning2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020TWIGGS004
18 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

8 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kings Crossing in 8 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 7 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
June 2012Thunderstorm WindKings Crossing$30,000The Houston County Emergency Manager reported that three trees fell on a house along Wisteria Drive. The trees caused the roof to partially collapse on the house.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindKings Crossing$20,000EM reports multiple trees down just south of Warner Robins. A few roads affected are Booth Road, South Davis Drive, Moody Road and Sandy Run Road.
July 2017Flash FloodKings Crossing$10,000The 911 Center relayed multiple reports of flash flooding along the western border of Robins Air Force Base. GA Highway 247 / U.S. 129 / Hawkinsville Road was closed near Green Street and near Armed Forces Boulevard, and the traffic circle at University Boulevard and Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard was closed. A vehicle was washed off the road near Walnut Street and Ignico Drive and had to exit the vehicle through the sun roof. Another car was stalled in high water on Wellborn Drive, near Andra Avenue.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindKings Crossing$2,000Emergency Manager reported a tree and powerlines down along Lake Placid Dr.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindKings Crossing$1,000Emergency Manager reported a tree down along Garden Ct.
September 2023Thunderstorm WindKings Crossing$1,000Tree in road along Fox Glen Dr.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindKings Crossing$1,000The Houston County 911 center reported a tree blown down on Fox Hall Boulevard in Bonaire.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindKings Crossing-Emergency Manager reported a tree and powerline down on a car near the intersection of Sandy Run Rd and S. Hwy 247.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Hickory Woods0.7 miles11
Windsor Forest0.9 miles11
Deerwood1.2 miles11
Creekside1.3 miles11
Lashley1.3 miles11
Idlewood Acres1.6 miles12
Holly Bluff1.6 miles11
Bonaire1.7 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671708. 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.