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Mesena, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Camak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30828. The Survey maps it on the Thomson West quadrangle. It stands 561 feet above sea level.

Mesena within Warren County

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

377 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 377 fires within 5 miles of Mesena between 1992 and 2020, burning about 818 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 37 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 burning217
Arson/incendiarism37
Equipment and vehicle use34
Smoking33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Natural17
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 1999Natural4.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-MCDUFFIE-004
8 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-MCDUFFIE-005
3 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WARREN-012
26 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MCDUFFIE005
26 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019WARREN004
26 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Warren 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 Mesena: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Weston and Brooker QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Warren County

Storms near this place

1 since 2022

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mesena in 1 storm report in 2022: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2022Thunderstorm WindMesena-Metal roofing pulled off a barn/shed along Wire Rd with several trees snapped.

Every storm recorded in Warren 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
Camak3.0 miles10
Cedar Rock3.2 miles14
Plainview3.5 miles10
Silvertown3.9 miles10
Thigpen4.5 miles12
East Warrenton4.5 miles10
Warrenton5.3 miles10
Norwood6.1 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 MesenaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058907The 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 332375. 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.