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Mayfield, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mayfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31087. The Survey maps it on the Jewell quadrangle. It stands 404 feet above sea level.

Mayfield within Hancock County

On record in Mayfield

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

173 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Mayfield between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,449 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 7 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 burning99
Natural20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Equipment and vehicle use10
Smoking8
Arson/incendiarism7
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3

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
26 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-WARREN-003
13 September 2015Recreation and ceremony3.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-WARREN-002
11 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WARREN006
10 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2002Natural19 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-WARREN-002
29 August 2018Debris and open burning7.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019WARREN003
27 August 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock County

Storms near this place

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mayfield in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 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
June 1998HailMayfield-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hancock 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
Culverton6.0 miles10
Powelton6.3 miles10
Pride (historical)7.4 miles10
Sunshine (historical)7.4 miles10
Granite Hill8.4 miles10
Springfield8.6 miles10
Eureka (historical)10.5 miles10
Sparta10.8 miles10

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.

Wikipedia article on MayfieldAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q20651365The 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 332340. 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.