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Palmyra, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Leesburg census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31763. It stands on Fowltown Creek. The Survey maps it on the Leesburg quadrangle.

Palmyra within Lee County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

267 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 267 fires within 5 miles of Palmyra between 1992 and 2020, burning about 427 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 54 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 burning135
Arson/incendiarism54
Misuse of fire by a minor34
Equipment and vehicle use22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Recreation and ceremony5
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Smoking1

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 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Arson/incendiarism13 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LEE-012
6 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
3 September 2010Debris and open burning17 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-LEE-004
27 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lee County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Palmyra: 1 producer. All of them 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
Leesburg Sand Co MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Lee County

Storms near this place

3 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Palmyra in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2017: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2017Thunderstorm WindPalmyra$15,000A tree was blown down onto a house off of Stuart Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindPalmyra$3,000Numerous trees were blown down on Ledo Road as reported by WFXL-TV. Damage was estimated.
May 1999HailPalmyra-Dime to quarter size hail reported by a SKYWARN storm spotter.

Every storm recorded in Lee 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
Forrester1.9 miles10
Century3.2 miles10
Nutview (historical)4.3 miles10
Oakland4.3 miles10
Byne Crossroads4.3 miles10
Stocks5.6 miles10
Armena5.6 miles10
Stocks (historical)5.6 miles10

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 PalmyraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q62737473The 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 332597. 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.