Musella, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Roberta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31066. The Survey maps it on the Culloden quadrangle. 104 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 591 feet above sea level.

Musella within Crawford County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1951 USGS Yatesville quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1974 USGS Culloden quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Thomaston quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Musella between 1992 and 2020, burning about 615 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 17 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	92
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Arson/incendiarism	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	7
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
8 September 1996	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	4.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CRAWFORD-013
21 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CRAWFORD-011
13 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021CRAWFORD002
8 August 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Crawford 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 Musella: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Knoxville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Crawford County

Storms near this place

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Musella in 13 storm reports between 1993 and 2019: 10 thunderstorm wind, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Musella	$250,000	The Crawford County Emergency Management Director reported that wind damage was widespread across the county. Dozens of trees and power lines were down across the county. Amateur radio operators reported that at least two dozen large trees were down just along U.S. Highway 80 east of Roberta. Four homes sustained major damage from downed trees. A fourth of the roof of the Crawford County Middle School sustained significant damage from wind. Power outages were widespread across the county.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Musella	$10,000	The Crawford County 911 center reported multiple trees down across the county. Some locations included River Road near Highway 96, Dabney Avenue, Winifred Street, Hopewell Road near Highway 341, and Eastwood Drive.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Musella	$10,000	The Crawford County 911 Center reported that many trees and power lines were down across the county. Radar data supported that the majority of the damage would have occurred north of a line from Musella in the northwest part of the county to Friendship in the eastern central section of the county.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Musella	$10,000	no account filed
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Musella	$5,000	An amateur radio operator reported that several trees were down along Georgia Highway 42 north of Roberta to near the Monroe county line.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Musella	$5,000	The Crawford County 911 Center reported that many trees were down across the northern end of the county.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Musella	$4,000	The Crawford County 911 Center reported that at least six trees were down across the county from strong thunderstorm outflow winds. Some power lines were also down. Trees were down on Jackson Road, Tribble Road, Zenith Mill Road, Charlotte Drive, and Knoxville Road.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Musella	$4,000	The Crawford County 911 Center reported that eight trees and three power lines were down, scattered about the county.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Musella	$2,000	The Crawford County 911 Center reported that numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Musella	$750	The Crawford County 911 center reported that three trees were down.
March 2011	Hail	Musella	-	An amateur radio operator relayed a report of quarter-sized hail across northern Crawford county just south of Musella. WSR-88D radar data suggests that similar-sized hail likely fell from where it ended in Upson county just east of Logtown to the Bibb county line east of Sandy Point.
February 2008	Hail	Musella	-	The Crawford County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail.
March 1993	Hail	Musella	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crawford 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
Ceres	2.0 miles	10
Sandy Point	5.3 miles	10
Roberta	5.3 miles	8
Knoxville	5.4 miles	11
Horns	8.6 miles	8
Francisville	9.1 miles	8
Hammett	9.8 miles	8
Gaillard	10.8 miles	8

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 Musella	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6940447	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 319174. 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.