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West Valdosta, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Valdosta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31601. The Survey maps it on the Valdosta quadrangle.

West Valdosta within Lowndes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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

362 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 362 fires within 5 miles of West Valdosta between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,814 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 61 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 burning146
Arson/incendiarism61
Railroad operations and maintenance38
Equipment and vehicle use33
Smoking30
Misuse of fire by a minor23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Natural11
Recreation and ceremony9

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
9 September 2010Debris and open burning4.1 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-LOWNDES-006
8 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2020Debris and open burning6.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021LOWNDES001
5 September 2008Railroad operations and maintenance1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1997Debris and open burning1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 1995Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2013Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-LOWNDES-004
17 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lowndes County

Storms near this place

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Valdosta in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 hail. 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
March 2005HailWest Valdosta-Golfball size hail reported by the Lowndes County EMA.

Every storm recorded in Lowndes 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
Lakeview Heights0.5 miles9
Lawton0.6 miles9
Westwood Estates1.1 miles9
Provident1.2 miles9
Hallmark Heights1.5 miles9
Remerton2.0 miles9
Prescott2.0 miles9
Jackson2.2 miles9

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 Q122561106The 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 325075. 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.