BlockWaynesville, Georgia
17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1917 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the Waynesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31566. The Survey maps it on the Waynesville quadrangle. 331 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 49 feet above sea level.
On record in Waynesville
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 1 record
Sylvester Mumford Houselisted 1982
Topographic sheets covering this place
11 surveys from 17 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1917 USGS Nahunta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1918 USGS Nahunta quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
- 1946 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1948 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1961 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000
- 1975 USGS Waynesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1978 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1978 USGS Waynesville quadrangle1:24000
- 1981 USGS Brunswick quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings
- 1993 USGS Waynesville quadrangle1:24000
Fires near this place
424 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 424 fires within 5 miles of Waynesville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,846 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 110 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 | 165 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 110 |
| Natural | 61 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 29 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 September 2007 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 September 1994 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020BRANTLEY021 |
| 29 September 1999 | Natural | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2006 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2005 | Natural | 11 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
22 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waynesville in 22 storm reports between 1997 and 2020: 17 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 2 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | $4,000 | A couple of pecan trees were blown down near the intersection of Post Road and Chicora Road. One tree fell on a house and the other on a car. The cost of damage was estimated, and there were no injuries reported. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | $2,500 | Large trees and power lines were blown down. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | $2,000 | A tree and power lines were blown down near Hooterville Diner along U.S. Highway 82. The time of damage was based on radar. The cost of damage was unknown but estimated for Storm Data. |
| June 2014 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | $2,000 | Trees were blown down in Waynesville. The cost of damage was estimated for the event to be included in Storm Data. |
| April 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | $500 | Wind gusts of 35-40 mph were estimated and caused some power line damage which caused outages in Waynesville. The cost of damage was unknown, but it was estimated so the event could be included in Storm Data. |
| July 2010 | Lightning | Waynesville | $500 | The Waycross Journal/Herald reported a lightning fire near Waynesville that burned about a tenth of an acre before fire fighters were able to control the blaze. The cost of property damage was estimated. |
| September 1997 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | $500 | Large trees and power lines were blown down along US-82 |
| April 2020 | Hail | Waynesville | - | Golf ball size hail was observed near Browntown Road. The time of the event was based on radar. |
| June 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | - | A tree was blown down on Highway 82. |
| April 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | - | A tree fell on a power line at the intersection of Albert Gibson Road and Browntown Road. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | - | The Waverly Minit Mart reported a customer saw large trees down and minor damage to a home off of County Road 170. |
| August 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | - | Power line poles were blown down in Waynesville. |
| April 2011 | Hail | Waynesville | - | Quarter size hail lasted for 15 minutes. The hail covered the ground and knocked down a lot of tree limbs. |
| April 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | - | Trees were blown down between Waynesville and Browntown. |
| June 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | - | Trees and power lines were blown down near Browntown Road. The time of the event was based on radar imagery. |
| March 2005 | Lightning | Waynesville | - | no account filed |
| April 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | - | no account filed |
| July 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waynesville | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Hail | Waynesville | - | no account filed |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atkinson | 3.4 miles | 17 | |
| Happy Landing | 5.8 miles | 17 | |
| Salter | 5.8 miles | 17 | |
| Lulaton | 6.1 miles | 17 | |
| Popwellville | 6.4 miles | 16 | |
| Browntown | 7.5 miles | 15 | |
| Prosperity | 7.9 miles | 17 | |
| Fendig | 8.1 miles | 15 |
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.
| Wikipedia article on Waynesville | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q3709402 | The 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 324940. 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.