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Aldora, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Barnesville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30204. The Survey maps it on the Barnesville quadrangle. It stands 822 feet above sea level.

Aldora within Lamar County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

237 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 237 fires within 5 miles of Aldora between 1992 and 2020, burning about 682 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 34 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 burning150
Arson/incendiarism34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use13
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
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 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Debris and open burning1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LAMAR-002
29 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1997Arson/incendiarism16 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020LAMAR004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lamar County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Aldora: 4 prospects, 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
Clay Creek MineMicaPast Producer
Early Vaughn MineMicaPast Producer
H S Worsham ProspectMicaProspect
Howard MineMicaPast Producer
Means ProspectMicaProspect
Perdue ProspectMicaProspect
Williams & Holmes ProspectsMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Lamar County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aldora in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 1998Thunderstorm WindAldora$50,000A slow moving thunderstorm continued to produce damaging winds over Lamar county. High winds caused a tractor-trailer to jacknife and overturn at Aldora near the intersection of highways 341 and 18. Road signs were twisted and nearly toppled. Several people in the area reported seeing a funnel cloud. The winds also toppled a brick sign and damaged the roof at a grocery store. A greenhouse at a nursery was also destroyed.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindAldora$1,000Tree down on powerline near Old Zebulon Rd in Aldora.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindAldora-Parts of the roof were torn off of a mobile home on the 500 block cannafax rd.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindAldora-Several trees were downed in Barnesville, including at the intersection of Hwy 341 and Zebulon rd. Siding was also removed from a building on grove Rd.
March 2010HailAldora-The public observed a considerable amount of penny to nickel-sized hail in the Barnesville area. The ground was covered in some locations.
July 2009HailAldora-The Lamar County 911 Center observed penny-sized hail in the Barnesville area.

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
Barnesville1.1 miles10
Powell (historical)1.2 miles10
Revere (historical)1.7 miles10
Milner Crossroads1.8 miles10
Wilkinsons (historical)1.9 miles10
Graddick (historical)3.0 miles10
Middlebrooks (historical)4.3 miles10
Lamont (historical)4.3 miles10

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 AldoraAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2393570The 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 331014. 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.