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Phoenix, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Phoenix census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31024. The Survey maps it on the Meda quadrangle.

Phoenix within Putnam County

On record in Phoenix

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 1 record

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 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

223 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 223 fires within 5 miles of Phoenix between 1992 and 2020, burning about 993 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 8 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 burning149
Equipment and vehicle use20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Smoking11
Natural10
Arson/incendiarism8
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Recreation and ceremony4

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
8 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PUTNAM-006
7 September 2010Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PUTNAM-005
7 September 2010Debris and open burning16 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PUTNAM-004
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PUTNAM-007
24 September 1996Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Putnam County

Storms near this place

3 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Phoenix in 3 storm reports between 2000 and 2021: 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
July 2012Thunderstorm WindPhoenix$1,500The Putnam County 911 Center relayed reports of several downed trees in the eastern portion of the county.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindPhoenix-Reports of multiple trees down across north, northeast and eastern Putnam county.
August 2000HailPhoenix-The public reported dime size hail along Harmon and Old Phoenix roads at the Cuscowilla Golf Club, just north of Phoenix.

Every storm recorded in Putnam 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
Turnwold1.0 miles12
Spivey (historical)2.3 miles12
Rockville4.1 miles11
Rudden5.8 miles12
Jefferson6.0 miles12
Eatonton6.5 miles11
Oconee Springs6.8 miles11
Imperial6.9 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326467. 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.