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.
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.
Herman and Allene Shaver Houselisted 2013 · 0.5 miles away
Topographic sheets covering this place
7 surveys from 11 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.
- 1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
- 1964 USGS Gray quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
Photographs
1 photograph, 2017Taken 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.
Highsmith, Carol M, 2017. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
316 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 208 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 21 |
| Smoking | 17 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 14 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2020JONES005 |
| 6 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019JONES001 |
| 3 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | 2.6 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 3 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 26 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | 9.4 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2019JONES005 |
| 21 September 1993 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Piedmont National Wildlife Refuge | COMP34WF |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2005Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2006 | Tornado (F1) | Wayside | $150,000 | A 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 2005 | Hail | Wayside | - | The Jones County Emergency Management Director reported nickel-sized hail. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campbell (historical) | 1.4 miles | 11 | |
| Smalls Crossing (historical) | 1.8 miles | 11 | |
| Bradley | 2.5 miles | 11 | |
| Round Oak | 3.5 miles | 11 | |
| Five Points | 4.0 miles | 11 | |
| Bragg | 4.5 miles | 11 | |
| Crutchfield (historical) | 4.6 miles | 11 | |
| Clinton | 5.0 miles | 12 |
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 Wayside | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q30622851 | 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 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.






