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Percale, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Forsyth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31046. It stands on Berry Creek. The Survey maps it on the East Juliette quadrangle.

Percale within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 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

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Percale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 930 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 24 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 burning128
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Smoking15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural8
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
3 September 1997Natural16 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePiedmont National Wildlife RefugeC-20 GA-POWER
6 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 August 2011Arson/incendiarism3.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MONROE-010
27 August 2004Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Percale: 3 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Garnet. 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
Owl Hollow ProspectGarnetProspect
A T Redding ProspectsMicaProspect
New Ground MineMicaPast Producer
Walker Smith MineMicaPast Producer
Willie Bowdoin MineMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Percale in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 tornado. 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
August 2008Tornado (EF0)Percale-The Monroe County Emergency Management Director reported that a brief EF0 tornado touched down near Plant Scherer, a Georgia Power Plant on the north side of Lake Juliette in northeast Monroe county just west of the Jones county line. The tornado touched down in a clear cut area, so no damage was observed. The tornado path length was approximately 1/4 mile long with a maximum path width of 50 yards. The maximum wind speed in the tornado was estimated to be 70 mph.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Juliette1.3 miles13
Berner4.8 miles14
Maynard5.5 miles14
Dames Ferry6.0 miles11
Cabaniss6.3 miles14
Star Mills8.0 miles14
Logwall8.1 miles14
Forsyth8.5 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 343090. 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.