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Laney, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Sale City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31784. The Survey maps it on the Cotton quadrangle. It stands 351 feet above sea level.

Laney within Mitchell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of Laney between 1992 and 2020, burning about 531 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 16 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 burning101
Equipment and vehicle use17
Arson/incendiarism16
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Smoking3
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2007Arson/incendiarism7.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2011Debris and open burning15 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-COLQUITT-017
1 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Mitchell County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laney in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 2020Flash FloodLaney-Water was reported over State Highway 37 near Dozier Norman Road and Mitchell County Road.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindLaney-A tree was blown down near the intersection of Highway 93 and Highway 37.
August 2013Flash FloodLaney-Flooding was reported along Highway 37 east of Highway 93 with water running over numerous other roads in the county with hazard signs posted.
March 2009HailLaney-Nickel sized hail reported on State Highway 93.
March 2024HailLaney-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mitchell 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
Akridge (historical)1.2 miles8
Hinsonton2.0 miles8
Saco (historical)3.4 miles8
Pebble City3.8 miles8
Sale City3.9 miles10
Cotton3.9 miles8
Rogerville5.6 miles8
Adelaide7.6 miles10

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.

Wikipedia article on LaneyAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6485552The 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 325834. 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.