Ragsdale, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the West Dougherty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31701. It lies near Fossil Sand Dunes (historic). The Survey maps it on the Albany West quadrangle.

Ragsdale within Dougherty County

On record in Ragsdale

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.

Mount Zion Baptist Churchlisted 1995 · 0.7 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 13 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Albany quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1956 USGS Albany West quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000
1997 USGS Albany West quadrangle1:24000

Fires near this place

326 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 326 fires within 5 miles of Ragsdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 867 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 88 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	127
Arson/incendiarism	88
Misuse of fire by a minor	37
Equipment and vehicle use	28
Railroad operations and maintenance	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Natural	5
Smoking	4

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 1997	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2010	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-DOUGHERTY-001
5 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2009	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dougherty County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ragsdale: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Albany Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Albany Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Oxford Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Southern Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Dougherty 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
Coachman Park	0.3 miles	13
Cedar Heights	0.3 miles	13
Dixieland	0.3 miles	13
Gloriana	0.4 miles	13
Walters	0.4 miles	13
Riverview	0.4 miles	13
Sunnyland	0.5 miles	13
Hollywood	0.6 miles	13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1671220. 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.