BlockLouvale Station, Georgia
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Omaha census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31815. It stands on Black Creek. The Survey maps it on the Louvale quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
8 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1950 USGS Louvale quadrangle1:24000
- 1950 USGS Lumpkin quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Louvale quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1955 USGS Lumpkin quadrangle1:62500
- 1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
107 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Louvale Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 270 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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 burning | 69 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 15 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Natural | 3 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | 1.2 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-STEWART-002 |
| 9 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-STEWART-005 |
| 30 September 1994 | Debris and open burning | 16 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1993 | Smoking | 3.1 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 22 September 2001 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2002-STEWART-006 |
| 19 September 2005 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 2019Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Louvale Station in 1 storm report in 2019: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Louvale Station | $4,000 | The Stewart County Emergency Manager reported a couple of trees blown down along US Hwy 27, one just north of Lumpkin and the other near the intersection of GA Hwy 39. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louvale | 1.7 miles | 12 | |
| Charles | 1.8 miles | 12 | |
| Union | 3.6 miles | 12 | |
| Orletta (historical) | 6.1 miles | 12 | |
| Green Hill (historical) | 6.6 miles | 12 | |
| Blufftown (historical) | 6.7 miles | 12 | |
| Upper Bradley Place | 6.9 miles | 12 | |
| Brooklyn | 6.9 miles | 7 |
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 Q122557276 | The 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 317435. 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.