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Georgia, Texas

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1903 and the latest in 1991. It stands in the Sumner census division. It lies in ZIP code area 75486. The Survey maps it on the Direct quadrangle.

Georgia within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 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

78 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Georgia between 1995 and 2017, burning about 1,035 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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 burning50
Equipment and vehicle use8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Arson/incendiarism5
Natural3
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Smoking1

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 2012Missing data/not specified/undetermined50 acresTexas A & M Forest Service2216@2420
6 September 2015Debris and open burning35 acresTexas A & M Forest Service37100
6 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceSAM MAGNESS
26 September 2015Debris and open burning5.0 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDIRECT MA
25 September 2015Debris and open burning10 acresTexas A & M Forest ServiceDIRECT PASTURE FIRE
25 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use8.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
24 September 2008Debris and open burning20 acresTexas A & M Forest Servicenot named
2 September 2015Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTexas A & M Forest Service9/2/15 GRASS FIRE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

1 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgia in 1 storm report in 2001: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
February 2001Thunderstorm WindGeorgia$25,000A barn was blown down, some carports were blown down, and several homes were unroofed.

Every storm 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
Tigertown3.1 miles12
Unity4.2 miles12
East Direct4.5 miles12
Direct4.6 miles12
Maxey5.5 miles12
Bunker Hill6.2 miles12
Globe6.7 miles11
Forest Hill7.1 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1381910. 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.