Queensland, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Queensland census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31750. The Survey maps it on the Queensland quadrangle. It stands 249 feet above sea level.

Queensland within Ben Hill County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 8 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Queensland quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Queensland quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

592 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 592 fires within 5 miles of Queensland between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,524 acres in total. 25 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 burning	395
Equipment and vehicle use	58
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	41
Arson/incendiarism	39
Natural	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	21
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	6

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
9 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020BEN HILL006
9 September 2007	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-BEN HILL-005
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2008	Debris and open burning	6.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019BEN HILL002
25 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019BEN HILL001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Ben Hill County

Storms near this place

9 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Queensland in 9 storm reports between 2003 and 2022: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Queensland	$5,000	Numerous trees and power lines were down. Power outages were reported in Queensland and Fitzgerald.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Queensland	$3,000	Downed trees and power lines reported by Ben Hill County 911.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Queensland	$2,000	A few hundred power outages occurred across northern Ben Hill county as gusty winds from a thunderstorm moved through.
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Queensland	-	A tree was blown down along Kathleen Dr.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Queensland	-	Trees were blown down near Highway 90 and Player Cemetery Road.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Queensland	-	Trees were blown down along Morning Glory Road near the bridge.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Queensland	-	A tree was blown down on Highway 90.
February 2013	Flood	Queensland	-	Persistent moderate to heavy rain over a greater than 6 hour period led to flooding over portions of Highway 129 as well as several dirt roads in Ben Hill County. No structures were impacted.
April 2017	Hail	Queensland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ben Hill 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
Lulaville	1.6 miles	8
Bowens Mill	3.3 miles	8
Westwood	5.3 miles	8
Fitzgerald	5.9 miles	8
Ashton	7.8 miles	8
Red Bluff	12.5 miles	7

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.

Wikipedia article on Queensland	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q7270878	The 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 332774. 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.