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Sandtown, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the East Baldwin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31061. The Survey maps it on the Lake Sinclair East quadrangle.

Sandtown within Baldwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

324 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 324 fires within 5 miles of Sandtown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,270 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 30 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 burning176
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Arson/incendiarism30
Equipment and vehicle use28
Natural17
Smoking15
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Recreation and ceremony7
Railroad operations and maintenance6

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 1993Debris and open burning2.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BALDWIN006
7 September 1997Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Recreation and ceremony9.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2020Debris and open burning3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021BALDWIN006
4 September 2010Debris and open burning15 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-HANCOCK-002
30 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HANCOCK-025

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Baldwin 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 Sandtown: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Kyanite, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Carrs Station MineClay, Fire Clay (Refractory), KyaniteProducer
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandtown in 1 storm report in 2020: 1 lightning. 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
August 2020LightningSandtown$1,000The Baldwin County Emergency Manager reported a house struck by lightning on Klesco Lane. The house sustained minimal damage.

Every storm recorded in Baldwin 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
Underwood1.0 miles13
Black Spring3.4 miles15
Montpelier4.5 miles15
Allen Mill (historical)6.3 miles14
Milledgeville6.9 miles15
Hardwick7.1 miles15
Carling (historical)8.2 miles15
Allenwood8.6 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 345315. 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.