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McLendon Crossroads, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Woodbury census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30293. It stands on Hinton Branch. The Survey maps it on the Warm Springs quadrangle.

McLendon Crossroads within Meriwether County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

192 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 192 fires within 5 miles of McLendon Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 739 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 23 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 burning122
Arson/incendiarism23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Natural8
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Recreation and ceremony5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Misuse of fire by a minor4

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
29 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Natural5.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MERIWETHER007
25 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MERIWETHER006
2 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2001Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-MERIWETHER-003
14 September 1998Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meriwether County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of McLendon Crossroads: 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cedar Rock ProspectGraniteOccurrence
Snelson MineMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Meriwether 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
Andrews Crossroads1.9 miles22
Woodbury2.4 miles22
Snelsons Crossroads2.4 miles22
Carrolls3.5 miles8
Betts3.5 miles22
Langdon3.5 miles22
Barnes Crossroads3.8 miles22
Raleigh3.9 miles22

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 Q122567491The 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 332357. 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.