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Wayside, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Round Oak census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31032. The Survey maps it on the Gray quadrangle.

Wayside within Jones County

On record in Wayside

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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 2017

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

An unusual barn near the town of Wayside in Jones County, Georgia
An unusual barn near the town of Wayside in Jones County, Georgia
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

316 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 316 fires within 5 miles of Wayside between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,080 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 15 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 burning208
Missing data/not specified/undetermined21
Smoking17
Equipment and vehicle use16
Arson/incendiarism15
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Natural14
Recreation and ceremony6
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
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 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020JONES005
6 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019JONES001
3 September 1997Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1993Debris and open burning9.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019JONES005
21 September 1993Natural6.0 acresPiedmont National Wildlife RefugeCOMP34WF

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jones County

Storms near this place

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wayside in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2006: 1 hail, 1 tornado. 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
January 2006Tornado (F1)Wayside$150,000A storm survey conducted by the National Weather Service concluded that an F1 tornado had touched down near the town of Wayside and roughly paralleled Georgia Highway 11 from there to the town of Bradley. The tornado had a path length of three miles with a path width of 300 yards at its maximum point. Four buildings, including a barn and machine shop, were destroyed and a double wide mobile home sustained considerable damage. At least six other mobile homes were severely damaged along the path of the tornado, two of which were on Wheeler Road near Bradley. A number of trees were uprooted and snapped off along the path as well. A large pine tree fell across and destroyed two vehicles on Wheeler Road.
March 2005HailWayside-The Jones County Emergency Management Director reported nickel-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Jones 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
Campbell (historical)1.4 miles11
Smalls Crossing (historical)1.8 miles11
Bradley2.5 miles11
Round Oak3.5 miles11
Five Points4.0 miles11
Bragg4.5 miles11
Crutchfield (historical)4.6 miles11
Clinton5.0 miles12

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 WaysideAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q30622851The 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 356623. 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.