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Sunnydale Acres, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Macon East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31217. It stands on Dry Bone Creek. The Survey maps it on the Macon East quadrangle.

Sunnydale Acres within Bibb County

On record in Sunnydale Acres

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 2 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

349 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 349 fires within 5 miles of Sunnydale Acres between 1992 and 2020, burning about 602 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 41 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 burning162
Arson/incendiarism41
Misuse of fire by a minor37
Equipment and vehicle use25
Smoking22
Railroad operations and maintenance16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony15
Natural15

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
6 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Smoking1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020BIBB001
24 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JONES009
20 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Debris and open burning23 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JONES006

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bibb 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 Sunnydale Acres: 3 producers, 1 past producer. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Fullers Earth. 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
Pikes Peak Fuller's EarthFullers EarthPast ProducerCristobalite, Opal, Montmorillonite
Burns Brick Co MineClayProducer
Burns MineClayProducer
Cherokee MineClayProducer

Every working recorded in Bibb 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
Cross Keys0.6 miles14
Shirlington0.7 miles14
Highland Hills0.8 miles14
Bristol Forest0.9 miles14
Duresville1.1 miles14
Morningside1.1 miles14
Lakeside Hill1.2 miles14
Groveland1.3 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1672303. 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.