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Veal, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Tennille census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31089. It stands on Rocky Branch. The Survey maps it on the Oconee quadrangle.

Veal within Washington 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

220 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 220 fires within 5 miles of Veal between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,575 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 62 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 burning81
Arson/incendiarism62
Equipment and vehicle use19
Smoking19
Natural15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony7
Misuse of fire by a minor6

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
30 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2008Debris and open burning3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burning6.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WASHINGTON014
18 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WILKINSON-010
12 September 1999Debris and open burning38 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1999Debris and open burning8.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2019Recreation and ceremony3.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JOHNSON003
8 August 2019Debris and open burning4.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JOHNSON002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Storms near this place

2 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Veal in 2 storm reports between 2017 and 2022: 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
July 2017Thunderstorm WindVeal$6,000The Washington County 911 center reported trees and power lines blown down from around the intersection of Highways 57 and 68.
May 2022Thunderstorm WindVeal-Report of trees and powerlines down near the intersection of Hwy 68 and Hwy 272.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Oconee5.4 miles7
Gardner5.4 miles7
Hazard6.6 miles7
Irwins Crossroads6.8 miles8
Ennis9.5 miles8
Peacocks Crossing11.1 miles8
Harrison11.2 miles7
Tennille12.4 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 348422. 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.