Walker, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the West Dougherty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31721. The Survey maps it on the Pretoria quadrangle.

Walker within Dougherty County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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.

1953 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Sasser quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1973 USGS Pretoria quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Walker between 1992 and 2020, burning about 633 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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 burning	73
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Arson/incendiarism	4
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-DOUGHERTY-003
5 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 1997	Debris and open burning	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 1997	Debris and open burning	4.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 July 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 July 2011	Debris and open burning	28 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-DOUGHERTY-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dougherty County

Storms near this place

8 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walker in 8 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Walker	$3,000	Three trees were blown down along 8 Mile Road. The monetary damage figure provided is a rough estimate.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Walker	$2,000	Power lines were blown down on Gillianville road in Albany.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Walker	-	A tree was blown down on Tallahassee Road.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Walker	-	A tree was blown down at the 6000 block of Tallahassee Road.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Walker	-	A tree was blown down at the 7100 block of Gillionville Road.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Walker	-	A tree was blown down at 1000 Tallahassee Road in Dougherty county.
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Walker	-	A tree was blown down on the 5400 block of Old Dawson Road.
August 2015	Flash Flood	Walker	-	Flooding was reported on Shiloh Ct due to 3 to 5 inches of rain falling in around 3 hours.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Pretoria	2.5 miles	10
Ducker	2.9 miles	10
Lockett Crossing	3.4 miles	10
Brookhollow	3.7 miles	10
Indian Creek	3.8 miles	10
Cedar Lake	3.8 miles	10
Gillionville Forest	3.8 miles	10
Springfield	4.0 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333343. 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.