Lowes Crossing, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Marshallville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31057. It stands on Spring Hill Creek. The Survey maps it on the Marshallville quadrangle.

Lowes Crossing within Macon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Marshallville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Lowes Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 452 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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	44
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Smoking	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	1

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
28 September 2006	Debris and open burning	3.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	4.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MACON-010
14 September 1997	Debris and open burning	36 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-MACON-006
11 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-MACON-005
8 August 2020	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021MACON002
26 August 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	3.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Macon 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Barrons Lane	1.9 miles	8
Winchester	2.2 miles	9
Marshallville	4.9 miles	9
Four Points	5.1 miles	8
Montezuma	6.5 miles	8
Spalding	6.9 miles	8
Willow Lake	7.5 miles	9
Five Points	7.7 miles	8

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 Q122593588

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 326379. 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.