Sand Bed, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Elko census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31047. The Survey maps it on the Hayneville quadrangle.

Sand Bed within Houston County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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.

1956 USGS Perry quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Hayneville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

228 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 228 fires within 5 miles of Sand Bed between 1992 and 2020, burning about 638 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 23 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	125
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Arson/incendiarism	23
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Smoking	10
Natural	10
Recreation and ceremony	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
6 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Debris and open burning	8.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1997	Debris and open burning	5.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Sand Bed: 4 producers, 3 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin, Limestone, General, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Clinchfield Mine	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Clinchfield Mine & Cement Mill	Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Clinchfield Quarry	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Clinchfield Quarry	Iron	Occurrence
Perry Quarry & Lime Plant	Calcium	Producer
Bear Creek Road Quarry	Kaolin	Occurrence
Kathleen Quarry	Kaolin	Producer

Every working recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

5 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sand Bed in 5 storm reports between 2019 and 2023: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Sand Bed	$15,000	Houston County EMA reported a power pole broken at Saddle Creek Rd and Arena Rd.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sand Bed	$5,000	Emergency manager reported five trees down on the 2000 block of S Hwy 247.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sand Bed	$2,000	Emergency Manager reports tree and powerlines down near the intersection of Hwy 341 S and Saddlecreek Rd.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Sand Bed	$2,000	Emergency manager reported two trees down near the intersection of S Hwy 247 and Davis Rd.
December 2021	Hail	Sand Bed	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Pabst	1.2 miles	11
Kathleen	2.8 miles	11
Willow Run	2.8 miles	11
Lea Glen	3.0 miles	11
Clinchfield	3.2 miles	11
Houston Lake	4.1 miles	11
Beaver Creek	4.1 miles	12
The Heather on Houston Lake	4.2 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 332964. 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.