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Neal, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Concord-Molena census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30206. The Survey maps it on the Concord quadrangle.

Neal within Pike County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

158 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Neal between 1992 and 2020, burning about 725 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 19 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 burning119
Arson/incendiarism19
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural4
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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 1996Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1995Arson/incendiarism122 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-PIKE-002
29 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-PIKE-005
21 September 2001Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-PIKE-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Pike County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Neal: 1 producer, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Granite, 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
Molina Sand Co--Lawrence MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Flat Rock Porphyritic Granite ProsGraniteProspect
Flat Shoals ProspectGraniteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Pike County

Storms near this place

3 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neal in 3 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 2 thunderstorm wind, 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
February 2025Thunderstorm WindNeal$1,000A tree was downed across the 600 block of union school road.
February 2025Thunderstorm WindNeal$1,000A tree was downed on fossett rd at hwy 18 .
March 2023Flash FloodNeal-Public reported flooding at the intersection of Highway 18 and Flat Shoals Road. In addition to the 1.5 inches of rain that fell the previous day, radar estimates indicate that 4 to 6 inches, with isolated amounts of up to 8 inches, fell on March 26, resulting in the flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Pike 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
Molena2.8 miles8
Barker2.8 miles9
Concord3.8 miles9
Hilltop4.5 miles9
Lawrences Mill4.7 miles12
Pedenville5.0 miles9
Bottoms5.4 miles9
Lifsey6.0 miles9

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 NealAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65086678The 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 326416. 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.