Amicalola, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dawsonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30534. It lies near Grogan Mountain. The Survey maps it on the Amicalola quadrangle. It stands 1,755 feet above sea level.

Amicalola within Dawson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 17 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.

1888 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000
1892 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000
1898 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
1911 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Amicalola quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Amicalola between 1992 and 2020, burning about 964 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 33 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 burning	53
Arson/incendiarism	33
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	TURNER CREEK
25 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	CHECK STATION
15 September 2016	Natural	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-DAWSON-004
8 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-DAWSON-005
5 August 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 July 1993	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dawson County

Storms near this place

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amicalola in 10 storm reports between 2005 and 2018: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Amicalola	$25,000	The Dawson County Emergency Manager reported multiple trees blown down across the east side of the county from Amicalola Falls State Park to an area near New Bethel Church Road and Highway 136.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Amicalola	$25,000	The Dawson County Emergency Management Director reported that at least 25 trees were down, mainly across the western half of the county. At least four trees were down on power lines and one tree was down on a structure causing minor damage.
January 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Amicalola	$20,000	The Dawson County Emergency Management Director reported that straight-lined winds associated with a line of showers and thunderstorms destroyed a 3-year old chicken house in the Amicalola Falls area.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Amicalola	$5,000	The emergency manager reported a stream overflowed a portion of Joe Chester Road with at least a foot of water.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Amicalola	$3,000	The Dawson County 911 Center reported that a few trees and power lines were down near the Amicalola Falls State Park.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Amicalola	$1,000	The Dawson County 911 Center reported a tree blown down in northern Dawson County.
May 2011	Hail	Amicalola	-	Amateur radio operators relayed reports of penny to nickel-sized hail near Amicalola Falls.
April 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Amicalola	-	The Dawson County Emergency Management Director reported that a squall line of thunderstorms with strong straight-line winds had caused considerable damage in the northeast part of the county, northeast of Juno near the Dawson/Lumpkin county line. Numerous large trees were down in the area and several structures and property in the area had received minor to moderate damage. Most of the damage was confined to Greenway Road where three homes sustained minor wind damage, mostly in the form of damage of siding, decks, and fences. A number of large trees were also down in these same areas causing additional damage to property. A couple of work shops were also damaged in the same area when portions of tin roofs were blown off the structures in addition to siding damage. Power lines and power poles were also down. Outside of this area, the public and the Dawson County Emergency Management Director reported that trees were down in other scattered areas about the county, but most notably in the southern part of the county near the Forsyth county line along Cowart and Kelly Bridge Roads. Greenway, Cowart, and Kelly Bridge roads all had to be closed for several hours because of numerous downed trees on the roadways.
May 2006	Hail	Amicalola	-	Personnel at the Amicalola Falls State Park in the far northern part of Dawson county observed penny to nickel-sized hail for up to 10 minutes.
March 2005	Hail	Amicalola	-	The Dawson County 911 Center reported golf ball-sized hail in the Amicalola Falls State Park area of extreme northwest Dawson county.

Every storm recorded in Dawson 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Johntown (historical)	2.0 miles	17
Emma	3.6 miles	20
Afton	3.8 miles	20
Juno	6.3 miles	19
McKee	8.8 miles	19
Dawsonville	11.6 miles	18
Hubbardsville	13.2 miles	22
Dougherty	15.5 miles	18

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 Amicalola	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q29034000	The 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 354300. 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.