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Weldons Crossroads, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Milner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30233. It stands on Ball Branch. The Survey maps it on the High Falls quadrangle.

Weldons Crossroads within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

290 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 290 fires within 5 miles of Weldons Crossroads between 1992 and 2020, burning about 761 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 30 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 burning187
Arson/incendiarism30
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Smoking13
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Natural7
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-BUTTS-002
19 September 1999Smoking3.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020LAMAR003
30 August 2014Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-MONROE-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Weldons Crossroads: 1 prospect, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Granite. 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
Flatrock QuarryGranitePast Producer
J I Taylor ProspectsMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Lamar 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
Patillo1.3 miles11
Chappel1.8 miles11
Unionville2.6 miles11
Liberty Hill4.4 miles11
Johnstonville7.2 miles10
Goggins8.2 miles10
Milner8.5 miles10
Five Points9.0 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 Q122538892The 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 344071. 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.