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Routons Crossroads, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Manchester census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31816. The Survey maps it on the Warm Springs quadrangle.

Routons Crossroads within Meriwether County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

227 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 227 fires within 5 miles of Routons Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 633 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 33 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 burning123
Arson/incendiarism33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Equipment and vehicle use10
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Natural8
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony6

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
9 September 2019Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MERIWETHER004
9 September 2007Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2016Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TALBOT-005
29 September 2005Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Debris and open burning4.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MERIWETHER-008

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meriwether County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Routons Crossroads: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Kaolin, Iron. 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
G.B. Grant PropertyIronPast ProducerResidual
Warm Springs BauxiteKaolinPast Producer1910, 1915

Every working recorded in Meriwether 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
Bullochville (historical)1.1 miles22
Bussey Crossroads1.3 miles22
Bulloch Crossroads1.4 miles22
Johnson Crossroads1.8 miles22
Loftin1.9 miles22
Persico2.1 miles22
Manchester2.4 miles22
Warm Springs2.6 miles22

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 Q122546575The 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 326500. 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.