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Wriley, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1916 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Toomsboro census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31090. It stands on Nelson Branch. The Survey maps it on the Irwinton quadrangle.

Wriley within Wilkinson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

276 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 276 fires within 5 miles of Wriley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 664 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 11 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 burning145
Smoking35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Equipment and vehicle use20
Natural14
Arson/incendiarism11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Recreation and ceremony6
Railroad operations and maintenance6

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 1999Equipment and vehicle use4.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 1999Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WILKINSON009
20 September 2019Debris and open burning3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WILKINSON008
2 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WILKINSON007
14 September 2003Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilkinson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Wriley: 14 past producers, 8 producers, 6 prospects, 2 occurrences. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Kaolin, Clay, Aluminum, Kaolin. 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
Drill Prospect 4Aluminum, KaolinProspect
Irwinton Bauxite DistrictAluminum, KaolinPast ProducerSEDIMENTARY
Mcintyre MillClayProducer
Toddville Plant No. 2 and 6ClayProducer
Toddville Plants 6c & 8ClayProducer
Wilkinson County MineClayPast Producer
Bentley-Boone MineKaolinProducer
Edgar MillKaolinProducer
Englehard Corp.KaolinOccurrence
Gibraltar MineKaolinProducer

Every working recorded in Wilkinson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wriley in 1 storm report in 2014: 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
May 2014HailWriley-The Wilkinson County 911 Center reported quarter sized hail on the northeast side of Irwinton.

Every storm recorded in Wilkinson 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
McIntyre1.7 miles13
Irwinton2.7 miles13
Edgars2.9 miles13
Youngblood Corners (historical)3.1 miles12
Dedrich3.8 miles13
Toomsboro4.4 miles12
Mount Carmel (historical)4.7 miles12
Clayfields4.9 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 Q122543476The 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 326601. 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.

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.