Neco, Georgia

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.

• 1922 USGS Hephzibah quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1948 USGS Hephzibah quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1950 USGS Augusta West quadrangle1:24000
• 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Augusta West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
• 1957 USGS Hephzibah quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
• 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
• 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
• 1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
• 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 448 fires within 5 miles of Neco between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,120 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 251 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.

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

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Adams (historical)
• Adventure (historical)
• Apple Valley
• Burch Grant
• Edenwood
• Fairvale

Every fire recorded in Richmond County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Neco: 9 producers, 7 occurrences, 4 past producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Brick Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Richmond County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Neco in 3 storm reports between 2018 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

Every storm recorded in Richmond County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332475. 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.