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McRae, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the McRae-Helena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31055. The Survey maps it on the McRae quadrangle. 5,740 people lived here at the 2010 count. It stands 246 feet above sea level.

McRae within Telfair County

On record in McRae

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 3 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

Fires near this place

612 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 612 fires within 5 miles of McRae between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,240 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 104 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 burning324
Arson/incendiarism104
Equipment and vehicle use76
Natural42
Recreation and ceremony20
Misuse of fire by a minor19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Smoking7
Railroad operations and maintenance3

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 2011Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-TELFAIR-015
8 September 2015Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-TELFAIR-004
8 September 1995Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Debris and open burning8.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1993Debris and open burning2.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Telfair County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of McRae: 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clegg Mine Jl Clegg SandSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Flanders MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Holland Asphalt Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium

Every working recorded in Telfair County

Storms near this place

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names McRae in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 1995: 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1995Thunderstorm WindMcRae$7,000Numerous trees were reportedly downed across the entire county. Several large tree limbs were knocked over in McRae, damaging at least one home. Thunderstorm winds also knocked several mobile homes off of their foundations. A batting cage at one High School was completely destroyed by winds.
March 1993Thunderstorm WindMcRae$5,000A single trailer was blown over by thunderstorm winds.
July 1995Thunderstorm WindMcRae$500Thunderstorm winds knocked trees down on power lines.
May 1993Thunderstorm WindMcRae-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Telfair 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
Helena0.8 miles9
Scotland4.6 miles9
Cedarpark7.2 miles8
Towns8.9 miles9
Milan9.3 miles8
Workmore9.4 miles7
Neily10.5 miles7
Cobbville11.2 miles7

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 McRaeAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q1282939The 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 317973. 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.