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Walker Park, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Monroe census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30656. The Survey maps it on the Monroe quadrangle.

Walker Park within Walton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

149 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 149 fires within 5 miles of Walker Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 376 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 23 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 burning82
Arson/incendiarism23
Misuse of fire by a minor15
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking9
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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 burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2002Debris and open burning4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-WALTON-005
8 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Debris and open burning9.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WALTON003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton County

Mines and quarries near this place

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Walker Park: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Mica. 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
Unnamed ProspectMicaOccurrence
Smith PlacerGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Thompson PlacerGoldPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Walton County

Storms near this place

5 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walker Park in 5 storm reports between 2018 and 2025: 4 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2018Thunderstorm WindWalker Park$3,000The Walton County 911 center reported trees blown down northwest of Monroe on Roscoe Davis Road near Friendship Church Road and on Meadow Wood Lane near Bold Springs Road.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindWalker Park$1,000Tree down along roscoe david road .
February 2025Thunderstorm WindWalker Park$1,000Em reports tree down at cedar ridge rd near hemingway dr at pet center.
January 2024Flash FloodWalker Park-The Emergency Manager reported Broad Street at US 78 was closed due to water over the roadway. Radar estimates indicate between 4 and 5 inches of rain occurred over the area, resulting in the flash flooding.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindWalker Park-Tree down near intersection of E Marable St and Walton Rd.

Every storm recorded in Walton 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
Nicholasville2.4 miles16
Campton2.5 miles17
Monroe3.1 miles17
Between4.1 miles16
Mount Vernon4.8 miles17
Cleaton (historical)4.9 miles17
Gratis4.9 miles17
Bold Springs5.6 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333347. 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.