Odis Crossroads, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Homer census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30521. The Survey maps it on the Lake Russell quadrangle.

Odis Crossroads within Banks County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

1891 USGS Carnesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Lake Russell quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Odis Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 319 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 9 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	82
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Arson/incendiarism	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3

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
6 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020FRANKLIN005
25 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-FRANKLIN-008
24 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 2008	Natural	4.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 August 1998	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Banks County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Odis Crossroads in 1 storm report in 2023: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Odis Crossroads	$1,000	Tree down on a powerline at the intersection of hwy 198 and Martin Bridge Rd.

Every storm recorded in Banks 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
Jewelville	1.6 miles	14
Pinefield Crossroads	3.0 miles	14
Mount Pleasant	3.1 miles	14
Pruitt	3.2 miles	14
Uvena	3.5 miles	14
Carlan	4.2 miles	14
Arp	6.1 miles	14
Hollingsworth	6.7 miles	14

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 Q122568453

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 329086. 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.