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Scottsboro, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Coopers census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31061. The Survey maps it on the Milledgeville quadrangle.

Scottsboro within Baldwin County

On record in Scottsboro

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 15 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

320 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 320 fires within 5 miles of Scottsboro between 1992 and 2020, burning about 953 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 11 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 burning188
Misuse of fire by a minor28
Equipment and vehicle use25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined23
Smoking22
Natural13
Arson/incendiarism11
Recreation and ceremony9
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1999Natural23 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BALDWIN012
26 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BALDWIN-005
26 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-BALDWIN-006
24 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BALDWIN011
23 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-BALDWIN-002

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 Scottsboro: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Midgeville Plant No. 1Fire Clay (Refractory)Past Producer
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium

Every working recorded in Baldwin County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scottsboro in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2013: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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 2013Flash FloodScottsboro$3,000The public reported water from Reedy Creek coming out of its banks and flowing across a portion of Georgia Highway 29 or Irwinton Road. This minor flooding occurred around 5 miles south of Milledgeville.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindScottsboro$1,000The Baldwin County 911 Center reported that a tree was blown down onto a power line along Gordon Highway in southeast Baldwin county.
December 2005HailScottsboro-The public reported quarter-sized hail.

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
The Colony1.6 miles15
Harrisburg1.7 miles15
Carling (historical)2.1 miles15
Pancras2.2 miles10
Mount Pleasant3.0 miles12
Hardwick3.0 miles15
Allenwood3.4 miles11
Milledgeville3.8 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356525. 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.