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Agricola, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mitchell census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30820. The Survey maps it on the Mitchell quadrangle.

Agricola within Glascock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

147 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 147 fires within 5 miles of Agricola between 1992 and 2019, burning about 707 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 7 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 burning90
Equipment and vehicle use18
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Arson/incendiarism7
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony1

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 1999Arson/incendiarism4.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-GLASCOCK-007
11 September 2006Debris and open burning4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 August 2001Debris and open burning2.3 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-WASHINGTON-009
7 August 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glascock County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Agricola: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, Free. 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
Wrens Kaolin AreaAluminum, Iron, Silica, Titanium, Water, FreeProspect1961

Every working recorded in Glascock County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Agricola in 1 storm report in 2011: 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
October 2011Thunderstorm WindAgricola$5,000The Glascock County Emergency Management Director reported that up to 15 large trees were down across the county, including one which fell on and took out a power line.

Every storm recorded in Glascock 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
Mitchell2.0 miles9
Blume5.6 miles10
Edgehill5.9 miles9
Five Points7.1 miles10
Gibson7.1 miles9
Glovers Millpond8.3 miles9
Harts12.1 miles9
Bastonville12.7 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.

Wikipedia article on AgricolaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q39050822The 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 326152. 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.