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Ryo, Georgia

19 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Fairmount census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30139. It lies near Carter Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Fairmount quadrangle.

Ryo within Gordon County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 19 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

333 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 333 fires within 5 miles of Ryo between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,087 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 175 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
Arson/incendiarism175
Debris and open burning102
Missing data/not specified/undetermined18
Equipment and vehicle use14
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking2

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 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-GORDON-002
29 September 1994Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019PICKENS001
22 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gordon County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Ryo: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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
Funkhouser Co QuarryClayPast Producer
Aggregate QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
P M Tate MineStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
H.M. Shellhorse PropertyIronOccurrence
L.P. Byrd PropertyIronPast Producer
Unnamed Iron DepositIronOccurrence

Every working recorded in Gordon County

Storms near this place

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ryo in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
July 1997Thunderstorm WindRyo$4,000Thunderstorm winds knocked down 30 to 40 trees and tree limbs.

Every storm recorded in Gordon 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
Bobo1.6 miles19
Fairmount1.8 miles19
Igo (historical)2.6 miles19
Ranger3.8 miles19
Yarbroughs Mill5.6 miles19
Colima6.4 miles19
Fambro (historical)6.4 miles19
Sonoraville7.2 miles19

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332949. 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.