Smalls Crossing, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Round Oak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31032. The Survey maps it on the Dames Ferry quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Smalls Crossing within Jones County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Dames Ferry quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

302 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 302 fires within 5 miles of Smalls Crossing (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,304 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 17 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	195
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Arson/incendiarism	17
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	14
Smoking	14
Recreation and ceremony	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
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 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020JONES005
3 September 1997	Debris and open burning	2.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1993	Debris and open burning	9.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1993	Natural	6.0 acres	Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge	COMP34WF
15 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-JONES-001
12 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-BIBB-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jones 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
Wayside	1.8 miles	11
Five Points	2.4 miles	11
Campbell (historical)	2.6 miles	11
Crutchfield (historical)	4.0 miles	11
Bradley	4.1 miles	11
Round Oak	4.3 miles	11
Fippin (historical)	4.4 miles	11
Three Points	5.5 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 345394. 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.