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Snelsons Crossroads, Georgia

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Woodbury census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30293. The Survey maps it on the Warm Springs quadrangle.

Snelsons Crossroads within Meriwether County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 22 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

175 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 175 fires within 5 miles of Snelsons Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 555 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 25 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 burning98
Arson/incendiarism25
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Equipment and vehicle use8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony5
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 2019Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MERIWETHER004
8 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1997Debris and open burning6.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2003Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2019Natural5.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020MERIWETHER007
2 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1998Debris and open burning2.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meriwether County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Snelsons Crossroads: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mica. 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
Harris City MineStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Snelson MineMicaPast Producer
Cedar Rock ProspectGraniteOccurrence
Greenville QuarryGranitePast Producer

Every working recorded in Meriwether County

Storms near this place

2 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snelsons Crossroads in 2 storm reports between 2010 and 2026: 2 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
June 2010Thunderstorm WindSnelsons Crossroads$7,000A Meriwether county sheriff's deputy reported that several trees were down in the vicinity of Temple-Dukes Road in the southern part of the county. A barn was also damaged in the vicinity. An apparent downburst was evident on radar data in this area. Doppler radar base velocities were as high as 50 knots between Warm Springs and Raleigh at 606 pm EDT.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindSnelsons Crossroads$1,000Em reports tree down on cedar rock rd, near temple dukes rd.

Every storm recorded in Meriwether 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
Andrews Crossroads0.6 miles22
Barnes Crossroads1.4 miles22
McLendon Crossroads2.4 miles22
Harris City2.5 miles22
Raleigh3.1 miles22
Langdon4.0 miles22
Crowders Crossing4.4 miles22
Greenville4.4 miles8

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122546985The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333081. 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.