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Turner City, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the East Dougherty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31705. The Survey maps it on the Albany East quadrangle.

Turner City within Dougherty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 12 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

380 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 380 fires within 5 miles of Turner City between 1992 and 2020, burning about 945 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 80 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 burning186
Arson/incendiarism80
Misuse of fire by a minor44
Equipment and vehicle use28
Railroad operations and maintenance15
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony4
Smoking4

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 1997Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1995Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2010Misuse of fire by a minor1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-DOUGHERTY-001
5 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2009Railroad operations and maintenance1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dougherty County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Turner City: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Albany MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Oxford MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Dougherty County

Storms near this place

15 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turner City in 15 storm reports between 2014 and 2026: 11 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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 2025Thunderstorm WindTurner City$10,000Thunderstorm winds blew apart a portion of the brick facade on the north facing side of a church building in the 3500 block of Sylvester Highway.
June 2016LightningTurner City$7,000Lightning damaged the roof of a home along the 900 block of River Pointe Drive. Damage was estimated.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindTurner City$3,000Power lines were blown down along Branch Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindTurner City$3,000Numerous trees were blown down on Philema Road with wires blown down near the 2300 block of Beachview Drive as reported by WFXL-TV. Damage was estimated.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindTurner City$3,000A tree was blown down on a trailer near Sylvandale Elementary School.
July 2017Thunderstorm WindTurner City$1,000Tree limbs were blown down onto power lines.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindTurner City$1,000Several trees were blown down in the area near Brierwood Road.
September 2014Thunderstorm WindTurner City$500A tree was blown down near 1520 Cordele Road.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindTurner City-Trees were down on Force Dr.
July 2021Flash FloodTurner City-Flooding was reported at the 1500 block of Malone Drive.
March 2019HailTurner City-Nickel size hail covered the ground.
January 2017Tornado (EF1)Turner City-An EF1 tornado touched down just inside the Dougherty County line along Cordele Road before moving east-northeast into Worth County. The tornado lifted just east of Highway 313. A strongly convergent signature was noted in the tree damage which supports the designation as a tornado. Max winds were estimated at 105 mph.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindTurner City-A tree was blown down on Johnson Road.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindTurner City-A pole was blown down onto a residence on Cordele Road near Staton Drive.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindTurner City-A tree was blown down near the 3300 block of Sylvester Road.

Every storm recorded in Dougherty 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
Rolling Groves0.1 miles12
Sylvandale0.4 miles12
Catalina Beach Estates0.9 miles12
Jackson Heights1.2 miles12
Pineview1.4 miles12
Woodland Acres1.4 miles12
East Albany1.5 miles12
Baker Heights1.6 miles12

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 Q122573258The 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 333287. 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.