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Wray, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Holt census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31798. The Survey maps it on the Ambrose quadrangle. It stands 308 feet above sea level.

Wray within Irwin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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

316 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 316 fires within 5 miles of Wray between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,383 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 21 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 burning194
Equipment and vehicle use45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Arson/incendiarism21
Natural15
Railroad operations and maintenance12
Smoking5
Recreation and ceremony2

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
8 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1996Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1997Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-COFFEE-018
23 September 2006Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2008Arson/incendiarism16 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2004Equipment and vehicle use1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Irwin County

Storms near this place

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wray in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
October 1997Thunderstorm WindWray$20,000Severe thunderstorm winds downed numerous trees and power lines between Lax and Wray.
July 2018Thunderstorm WindWray$5,000Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindWray$1,000A low hanging power line at truck level was reported along County Line Road.
February 2014Thunderstorm WindWray$1,000A tree was in the road near the Irwin/Coffee county line.
April 2025Thunderstorm WindWray-A tree was blown down along County Line Road.
March 2020FloodWray-Mallard Road was reported to be underwater.
April 2017Thunderstorm WindWray-A tree was blown down onto Vickers Road.

Every storm recorded in Irwin 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
Osierfield4.5 miles8
Holt5.4 miles7
Ocilla10.5 miles8
Lax10.9 miles9
Riverbend14.3 miles9
Mystic14.9 miles8
Pinetta16.2 miles8
Irwinville17.5 miles8

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 WrayAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q22058958The 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 325567. 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.