Walls Crossing, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Ellaville North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31806. The Survey maps it on the Ellaville North quadrangle.

Walls Crossing within Schley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Ellaville North quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

142 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 142 fires within 5 miles of Walls Crossing between 1992 and 2020, burning about 738 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 18 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	78
Arson/incendiarism	18
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Natural	12
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Smoking	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3

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
25 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	4.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-MARION-013
20 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 September 2019	Natural	18 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020MARION010
17 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020SCHLEY002
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	14 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1999	Debris and open burning	8.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Schley County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Walls Crossing in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2017	Tornado (EF1)	Walls Crossing	$500,000	A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF1 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 105 MPH and a maximum path width of 200 yards touched down west of Ellaville near a small farm south of Chancey Drive. The tornado moved east snapping and uprooting trees along its path south of Chancey Drive into southern Ellaville. The tornado snapped and uprooted dozens of trees as it crossed Pinefield Drive and Ridgewood Drive where several homes were impacted. The tornado continued east crossing Ebenezer Road and travelling along Pine Circle snapping trees and causing roof damage to homes. The tornado crossed South Callaway Drive and Broad Street where a large metal building collapsed onto peanut storage bins. The \|tornado then turned southeast hitting a large warehouse and mobile home manufacturer. A metal building was heavily damaged and several new mobile homes were overturned in a holding lot. The tornado then turned east once again crossing Highway 19 and paralleling Highway 228, snapping a few trees, before lifting west of Lacross Road. In total, more than 40 homes were damaged with 3 destroyed by falling trees. Twelve businesses sustained damage of varying degrees and the entire town of Ellaville was without power for more than 24 hours. No injuries were reported. [04/03/17: Tornado #13, County #1/1, EF-1, Schley, 2017:45].
March 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Walls Crossing	$125,000	The Marion County Emergency Management Director reported that the tornado, which began in eastern Marion county approximately two miles northwest of Putnam, continued on a two-mile east-northeastward track into extreme western Schley county. The tornado lifted approximately 2.1 miles northwest of Walls Crossing. The tornado continued to have a maximum path width in Schley county of 100 yards. Within Schley county, nearly 500 trees were either snapped or uprooted along the brief 1/2 mile long path. No structural damage was reported within Schley county.
December 2009	Flood	Walls Crossing	$3,000	The Schley County Emergency Management Director reported minor flooding of some roads and property across the county, mostly adjacent to overflowing creeks and streams. Monetary damage was confined to minor debris removal in these areas.
May 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Walls Crossing	$2,000	A Schley County Sheriff Deputy reported that seven trees were blown down at Highway 26 and Stevens Road about five miles west of Ellaville.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Walls Crossing	$1,000	Powerlines downed at the intersection of Trice and Raybon Road.

Every storm recorded in Schley 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
Ellaville	3.4 miles	7
Concord	5.5 miles	8
Murrays Crossroads	6.1 miles	8
La Crosse	8.3 miles	7
Bumphead	9.9 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 333355. 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.