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Wallston, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Warner Robins census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31098. The Survey maps it on the Warner Robins SE quadrangle.

Wallston within Houston County

On record in Wallston

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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

211 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 211 fires within 5 miles of Wallston between 1992 and 2019, burning about 566 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 39 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 burning79
Misuse of fire by a minor50
Arson/incendiarism39
Equipment and vehicle use10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural8
Smoking5
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2013Natural2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-BIBB-001
15 September 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-HOUSTON-012
1 September 1994Misuse of fire by a minor1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Houston County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Wallston: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
Macon Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Houston County

Storms near this place

11 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallston in 11 storm reports between 2012 and 2021: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 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
July 2016Thunderstorm WindWallston$50,000The public reported a power line blown down on Robins Parkway just south of 7th Street and a large tree blown down onto a home in the Woodbridge subdivision. No injuries were reported.
June 2015Thunderstorm WindWallston$12,000A Macon area television news station reported trees blown down and a storage shed damaged along Highway 247.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindWallston$4,000The Houston County 911 center reported a couple of trees and some power lines blown down in the Northside/Parkview areas of Warner Robins.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindWallston$1,500The public reported trees down at Houston Road and Jones Road. Trees were also uprooted in Bonaire.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindWallston$1,500Broadcast Media reported several trees down in Warner Robins.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindWallston$1,000The Houston County Emergency Manager reported a large tree limb blown down on a house on Green Street.
April 2013Thunderstorm WindWallston$250The broadcast media relayed reports of a tree down in Warner Robins.
July 2017Flash FloodWallston-Public reported six inches of water flowing over US Highway 129 / Hawkinsville Road, just north of Green Street. Cars were nearly washed off the road. Radar estimates indicate that 4 to 5 inches of rainfall occurred in the area.
June 2014HailWallston-The Robins AFB fire department reported dime-sized hail.
June 2014HailWallston-A CoCoRaHS observer reported quarter-sized hail.
March 2012HailWallston-WMGT-TV relayed a report of penny size hail that fell in Warner Robins.

Every storm recorded in Houston 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
Warner Robins0.1 miles11
Honey Ridge Plantation1.9 miles12
Redding2.1 miles11
Danes Meadow2.4 miles12
Hunters Ridge2.6 miles12
Shirley Hills Estates2.7 miles12
Creekside2.8 miles11
Elberta2.9 miles11

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 Q122565407The 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 1671786. 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.