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Palmyra Heights, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the West Dougherty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31707. The Survey maps it on the Albany West quadrangle.

Palmyra Heights within Dougherty County

On record in Palmyra Heights

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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

351 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 351 fires within 5 miles of Palmyra Heights between 1992 and 2020, burning about 771 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 100 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 burning121
Arson/incendiarism100
Misuse of fire by a minor53
Equipment and vehicle use33
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Recreation and ceremony7
Smoking4
Natural3

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 1997Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dougherty 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 Palmyra Heights: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: 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
Albany MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Albany MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oxford MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dougherty 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
Relswood Terrace0.2 miles13
Hillingdon0.2 miles13
Palmyra Homes0.3 miles13
Eugemar0.3 miles13
Edgewood0.3 miles13
Hedrick Park0.4 miles13
Cleveland Heights0.5 miles13
Woodland0.5 miles13

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 Q122598509The 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 1671198. 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.