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Pinefield Crossroads, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Baldwin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30511. It stands on Brady Creek. The Survey maps it on the Lake Russell quadrangle.

Pinefield Crossroads within Banks County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of Pinefield Crossroads between 1992 and 2019, burning about 442 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 12 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 burning69
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Arson/incendiarism12
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural5
Recreation and ceremony1

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
6 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Equipment and vehicle use2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020FRANKLIN005
25 September 2016Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-FRANKLIN-008
24 September 1999Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2008Natural4.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-FRANKLIN-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Banks 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 Pinefield Crossroads: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Homer Plant No. 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Banks County

Storms near this place

1 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinefield Crossroads in 1 storm report in 2023: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPinefield Crossroads-Tree down at Caudell Rd and Damascus Rd .

Every storm recorded in Banks 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
Pruitt0.4 miles14
Uvena2.0 miles14
Odis Crossroads3.0 miles14
Mount Pleasant3.7 miles14
Hollingsworth3.8 miles14
Jewelville3.9 miles14
Nancytown (historical)3.9 miles14
Woffords Settlement (historical)5.2 miles14

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 Q122550669The 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 332682. 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.