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Powersville, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Byron census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31008. The Survey maps it on the Fort Valley East quadrangle.

Powersville within Peach County

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

387 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 387 fires within 5 miles of Powersville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 941 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 39 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 burning213
Equipment and vehicle use45
Arson/incendiarism39
Misuse of fire by a minor27
Natural21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Smoking10
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance4

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
7 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2016Debris and open burning3.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-PEACH-007
6 September 2014Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-PEACH-006
4 September 2017Debris and open burning26 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-PEACH-001
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1994Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2011Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-PEACH-008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Peach 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 Powersville: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. 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
Powersville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence

Every working recorded in Peach County

Storms near this place

8 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powersville in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 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
February 2009HailPowersville$280,000A storm spotter observed golf ball-sized hail in the eastern part of Peach county. Location was estimated by radar data since reported time and radar reflectivity data did not match.
March 1996Thunderstorm WindPowersville$20,000no account filed
March 2013Thunderstorm WindPowersville$15,000Ham radio operators relayed a report of a tree down on a mobile home near Byron.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindPowersville$8,000Numerous trees reported uprooted or snapped on both sides of Hwy 49 near Bible Camp Rd.
April 2016Thunderstorm WindPowersville$2,000The Peach County Emergency Manager reported two pine trees blown down along Kay Road south of Byron.
April 2022HailPowersville-Quarter sized hail was reported at the Pet Lodge in Powerville.
December 2021HailPowersville-Quarter-sized hail reported on Lakeview Road.
May 2010HailPowersville-The public observed quarter-sized hail near Powerville. Radar data suggests that similar-sized hail likely fell across much of the county from the Crawford county line west of Powerville to the far eastern part of the county near Lakewood.

Every storm recorded in Peach 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
Ohio1.9 miles10
Bryn Mawr2.7 miles10
Lakeview2.9 miles12
Biss3.1 miles10
Miami Valley3.5 miles10
Byron3.9 miles11
Alpine Heights4.1 miles11
Edgewood4.1 miles10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332753. 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.