Phillips, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Broad River census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30633. It stands on Hanna Creek. The Survey maps it on the Danielsville North quadrangle.

Phillips within Madison County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 15 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 Danielsville quadrangle1:62500
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Danielsville North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

150 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 150 fires within 5 miles of Phillips between 1992 and 2019, burning about 206 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 15 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	83
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Arson/incendiarism	15
Smoking	13
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	2

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
30 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MADISON-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Madison 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 Phillips: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Ramsay Buchanan Mine	Mica	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Madison County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phillips in 1 storm report in 2009: 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
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Phillips	$7,000	The Madison County 911 Center reported that many trees and and power lines were down across the county.

Every storm recorded in Madison 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
Bond	0.2 miles	15
James Spring (historical)	1.2 miles	15
Madison Springs	1.5 miles	15
Shiloh	2.2 miles	15
Harrison	3.5 miles	14
Bluestone	3.7 miles	15
Velpoe	4.3 miles	15
Dalton	4.4 miles	15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 335538. 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.