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Antioch, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Abbottsford census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30240. The Survey maps it on the Abbottsford quadrangle.

Antioch within Troup County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 14 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

115 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Antioch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,228 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 12 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 burning67
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Smoking8
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural2

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
5 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresAlabama Forestry Commission20200809-4
7 August 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-HEARD-003
5 August 1996Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 August 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Troup County

Storms near this place

1 since 2024

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Antioch in 1 storm report in 2024: 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
August 2024Thunderstorm WindAntioch$2,000At least two trees were downed in the area of reeds lake.

Every storm recorded in Troup 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
Whitewater Estates0.8 miles14
Covered Bridge1.7 miles14
Turkey Point2.9 miles14
Vernon3.3 miles14
Vernon (historical)3.5 miles14
Whitewater Woods3.5 miles14
Indian Bend3.8 miles12
Riverridge3.9 miles14

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 AntiochAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q39091453The 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 310549. 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.