Maddox, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Americus census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31719. The Survey maps it on the Smithville East quadrangle.

Maddox within Sumter 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.

1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Leslie quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1973 USGS Smithville East quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

281 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 281 fires within 5 miles of Maddox between 1992 and 2020, burning about 894 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 18 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	154
Equipment and vehicle use	38
Arson/incendiarism	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	14
Smoking	12
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Recreation and ceremony	5

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 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021SUMTER002
9 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-SUMTER-002
7 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020SUMTER013
30 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-SUMTER-021
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2006	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Maddox: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Anthony Dairy Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

2 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Maddox in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2010: 1 tornado, 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
October 2009	Tornado (EF1)	Maddox	$125,000	The Sumter County Emergency Management Director confirmed that an EF1 tornado touched down and tracked a little over two miles across the southern part of the county. The tornado touched down approximately five miles south of Americus near U.S. Highway 19. A grocery store on U.S. Highway 19, just south of McLittle Bridge Road, suffered a collapsed wall and roof damage. A large tree also fell on a forestry building near the location. A nearby home also suffered minor damage. The tornado continued to a point approximately 5.5 miles southeast of Americus or near Georgia Highway 377. Approximately 50 to 100 trees were uprooted along the path of the tornado. Some power lines were also down along the path of the tornado.
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Maddox	$2,000	The Sumter County Emergency Management Director reported that up to eight trees were down across the county. Radar data suggests that the majority of the incidents occurred between Maddox and Methvins where a line of strong thunderstorms passed.

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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
Thalean	3.1 miles	8
Sumter	3.4 miles	7
Gatewood	4.0 miles	8
Sumter Homes	4.8 miles	8
Croxton Crossroads	5.1 miles	7
New Point	5.1 miles	8
Americus	5.2 miles	8
Huntington	5.4 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332302. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.