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Stevens Crossing, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Summertown census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30441. The Survey maps it on the Colemans Lake quadrangle. It stands 210 feet above sea level.

Stevens Crossing within Emanuel County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 7 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

207 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 207 fires within 5 miles of Stevens Crossing between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,724 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 39 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 burning105
Arson/incendiarism39
Equipment and vehicle use19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural9
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Recreation and ceremony4

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
4 September 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burning5.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020EMANUEL010
17 September 2010Debris and open burning1.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-EMANUEL-014
14 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-EMANUEL-017
12 September 2019Arson/incendiarism13 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020EMANUEL009
10 September 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-EMANUEL-004
8 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-EMANUEL-004
31 August 2014Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-EMANUEL-016

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Emanuel County

Storms near this place

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stevens Crossing in 1 storm report in 2018: 1 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 2018Thunderstorm WindStevens Crossing$4,000The Emanuel County 911 center reported trees blown down from Drake Road northeast across Highway 56 to around the intersection of Stevens Crossing Road and Stevens Cemetary Road.

Every storm recorded in Emanuel 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
Three Points0.9 miles8
Summertown2.2 miles8
Colemans Lake3.5 miles7
Blun5.4 miles8
Blundale7.4 miles7
Canoochee8.0 miles7
Modoc8.6 miles8
Old Dellwood9.3 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.

Wikipedia article on Stevens CrossingAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q4846612The 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 326532. 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.

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.