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Naylor, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Naylor census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31641. The Survey maps it on the Naylor quadrangle. 139 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 190 feet above sea level.

Naylor within Lowndes 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.

Fires near this place

361 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 361 fires within 5 miles of Naylor between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,697 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 75 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 burning210
Arson/incendiarism75
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Equipment and vehicle use16
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Natural10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony2

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 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2001Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-LOWNDES-010
22 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021LOWNDES002
15 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-LOWNDES-010
13 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minor1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-LOWNDES-009

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes County

Storms near this place

18 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Naylor in 18 storm reports between 2000 and 2024: 13 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2000LightningNaylor$100,000Lightning ignited a fire which destroyed a warehouse. Reported by the Valdosta Daily Times.
August 2023Flash FloodNaylor$50,000The road was washed out near the intersection of Good Hope Road and Hotchkiss Road.
April 2000Thunderstorm WindNaylor$5,000The Lowndes County EMA reported trees and power lines down at GA 129 and Good Hope Circle.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindNaylor$4,000Several trees and power lines were blown down in Lowndes county.
July 2013Thunderstorm WindNaylor$1,000A couple of trees were blown down near the intersection of Highway 135 and 84E.
August 2013Thunderstorm WindNaylor$500A single tree was blown down near the intersection of U.S. Highway 84 and Old Naylor Road with no other damage reported.
May 2023Thunderstorm WindNaylor-Multiple trees were blown down along Highway 135.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNaylor-A tree was blown down near Howell Road and Chitty Road.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindNaylor-A tree was blown down onto Old Naylor Road.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindNaylor-A tree was blown down onto Highway 135.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindNaylor-A line was blown down at 3 Highway 187E.
February 2020Thunderstorm WindNaylor-A tree was blown down along Highway 135 South.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindNaylor-Trees were blown down near Naylor.
August 2017Thunderstorm WindNaylor-Trees were blown down in the Naylor area.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindNaylor-A tree was blown down in the Naylor area.
March 2012HailNaylor-Quarter sized hail was reported near Naylor and fell for a few minutes.
March 2024HailNaylor-no account filed
March 2011HailNaylor-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lowndes 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
Greens Crossing1.2 miles8
Monks Crossing1.5 miles8
Delmar3.5 miles6
Bandy5.8 miles6
Blanton5.8 miles6
Indianola6.6 miles6
Stephenton (historical)7.3 miles6
Seaford (historical)8.4 miles6

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 NaylorAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6983156The 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 332468. 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.

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.