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Mahailey Crossroads, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Centralhatchee census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30217. The Survey maps it on the Frolona quadrangle.

Mahailey Crossroads within Heard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

164 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Mahailey Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,380 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 27 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 burning98
Arson/incendiarism27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2

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 1995Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Smoking1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HEARD-009
28 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1993Debris and open burning3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2000Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CARROLL-013

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Heard County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mahailey Crossroads in 1 storm report in 2017: 1 heavy rain. 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
June 2017Heavy RainMahailey Crossroads-The USGS precipitation gage located at the Hillabahatchee Creek on Frolona Road near Franklin, reported 4.64 inches of rain for the 24-hour period ending at 9:30 PM EST.

Every storm recorded in Heard 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
Yates Crossroads0.9 miles11
Rockalo1.4 miles11
Red Oak2.4 miles10
Frolona2.6 miles11
Simpson2.6 miles11
Barkers Crossroads2.7 miles11
Hyatt2.8 miles11
Unity3.0 miles11

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 Q122570545The 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 332307. 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.