Ricks Place, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fort Gaines census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39854. It stands on Drag Nasty Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hatcher quadrangle.

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Ricks Place within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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
1967 USGS Hatcher quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Troy quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Ricks Place between 1992 and 2020, burning about 749 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 5 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	80
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Recreation and ceremony	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	5
Smoking	3

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
3 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2016	Debris and open burning	2.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-CLAY-001
1 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2008	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	20200805-3
28 August 1996	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Alabama Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Ricks Place: 26 occurrences, 7 unknowns, 4 producers, 1 past producer. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Iron, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory). 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
Barbour County Mines	Clay	Producer
Harbison-Walker Henry County Mines	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer
Henry County Mines	Clay	Producer
W M Bledsoe Henry County Mines	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Producer
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown

Storms near this place

7 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ricks Place in 7 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
September 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Ricks Place	$4,000	Trees were blown down onto power lines and one power pole was broken.
March 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Ricks Place	$3,000	Siding was blown off a building.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Ricks Place	$3,000	A few trees and power lines were blown down near Highway 39 in northern Clay county. Monetary damage was estimated.
January 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Ricks Place	-	Large branches were blown down along Azalea Trace.
May 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Ricks Place	-	The UGA Weather Network station at Sunny View Farms measured a wind gust of 70 mph.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Ricks Place	-	Multiple trees were blown down.
April 2017	Tornado (EF1)	Ricks Place	-	The tornado touched down in extreme southeastern Barbour County in the White Oak community producing EF1 damage on White Oak Drive. The tornado then crossed Sandy Creek into Henry County's White Oak subdivision producing mostly EF1 damage across the entire width of the neighborhood between Sandy Creek and White Oak Creek. However, a double-wide manufactured home on Laurel Drive was shifted about 8 feet despite being strapped to the ground by 2 to 3 foot anchors which were completely pulled from the ground. This justified EF2 damage in this location with winds estimated at 115 mph. The tornado then crossed the Walter F. George Reservoir, also known as Lake Eufaula, into the state of Georgia with EF1 damage on the eastern shore of the lake along County Road 28. The tornado came ashore at the Quitman-Clay County line producing damage in both counties primarily in the form of uprooted trees. The trees damaged several homes. Debris from a lakeside porch was lofted and deposited on the opposite side of the home and strewn across an adjacent field. The tornado continued northeastward across rural Quitman County hitting the Self Family Farm on Self Road. The tornado did significant damage to the roof of a well constructed brick home, removing the majority of the roof. The walls of a brick outbuilding collapsed. There were also numerous trees snapped or uprooted adjacent to the home, two of which were debarked. This damage was consistent with EF2 winds of about 115 mph. Just northeast of the house, an irrigation pivot was toppled with the northern portion falling toward the southwest and the southern portion falling in the opposite direction. The tornado continued northeast across more rural areas causing EF1 damage to trees on County Road 82 before lifting shortly thereafter.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Days Crossroads	4.1 miles	7
Moores Crossroads	4.5 miles	7
Watson Crossroads	4.9 miles	7
Garnersville	5.3 miles	7
Cotton Hill	7.3 miles	7
Oketeyeconne (historical)	8.3 miles	7
Bethel	9.4 miles	7
Pecan	10.1 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.

Wikidata item Q122546516

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 332851. 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.