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Surry Chase, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mansfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30025. The Survey maps it on the Mansfield quadrangle.

Surry Chase within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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

198 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 198 fires within 5 miles of Surry Chase between 1993 and 2020, burning about 805 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 16 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 burning96
Equipment and vehicle use24
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Natural14
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Smoking9
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony6

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
8 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning8.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1993Natural1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-NEWTON-003
27 September 2007Natural4.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

1 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Surry Chase in 1 storm report in 2020: 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
August 2020Thunderstorm WindSurry Chase$5,000A report of a few trees blown down near the intersection of Social Circle Road and Highway 11 was received over social media.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
River Cove1.6 miles17
Hub Junction1.7 miles17
Quail Valley1.9 miles16
Melody2.3 miles17
East Wood2.5 miles17
Skyline2.5 miles17
Alcovy2.6 miles17
Hazelbrand Acres2.7 miles17

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 Q122544813The 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 1673621. 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.