BlockO'Neals Crossroad, Georgia
11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Texas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30217. The Survey maps it on the Glenn quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1899 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000
- 1902 USGS Wedowee quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
- 1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Glenn quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS La Grange quadrangle1:100000
Fires near this place
106 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of O'Neals Crossroad between 1992 and 2019, burning about 877 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 14 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 | 52 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 14 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Other causes | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 7 September 1997 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 2009 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.8 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2012-HEARD-007 |
| 14 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
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.
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.
| Wikidata item Q122597300 | 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 326428. 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.