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Lexsy, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Twin City census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30401. The Survey maps it on the Nunez quadrangle.

Lexsy within Emanuel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

290 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 290 fires within 5 miles of Lexsy between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,068 acres in total. 22 started naturally. 62 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 burning167
Arson/incendiarism62
Natural22
Equipment and vehicle use16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking2
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
8 September 2001Debris and open burning8.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-EMANUEL-008
7 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-EMANUEL-009
30 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2008Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2008Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-EMANUEL-011
24 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2020Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021EMANUEL009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emanuel County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lexsy in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2013: 2 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
August 2013HailLexsy-The public reported quarter sized hail between Nunez and Oak Park.
April 2009HailLexsy-The public observed penny-sized hail just east of Lexsy or about 10 miles southwest of Twin City.

Every storm recorded in Emanuel 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
Wesley2.1 miles10
Nunez3.1 miles10
Lombard3.3 miles10
Kirby3.6 miles7
Stillmore4.7 miles9
Gary6.3 miles7
Durdenville7.2 miles7
Oak Park7.7 miles9

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 Q122551082The 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 316792. 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.