Murrays Crossroads, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ellaville North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31806. It stands on Usry Creek. The Survey maps it on the Ellaville North quadrangle. It stands 440 feet above sea level.

Murrays Crossroads within Schley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Ellaville North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Murrays Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,166 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 13 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 burning	111
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Arson/incendiarism	13
Natural	12
Recreation and ceremony	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2013	Debris and open burning	2.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-SCHLEY-001
6 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2019	Natural	25 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TAYLOR020
25 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-SCHLEY-003
24 September 2016	Debris and open burning	7.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MACON-010
24 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2018	Debris and open burning	9.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019MACON002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schley 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Concord	2.6 miles	8
Ellaville	5.8 miles	7
Walls Crossing	6.1 miles	8
La Crosse	9.7 miles	7
Bumphead	10.3 miles	7

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 Murrays Crossroads	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6939554	The 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 326414. 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.