Arnco Mills, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Newnan census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30263. It stands on Little Wahoo Creek. The Survey maps it on the Newnan North quadrangle.

Arnco Mills within Coweta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1965 USGS Newnan North quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

300 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 300 fires within 5 miles of Arnco Mills between 1992 and 2019, burning about 894 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 44 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	190
Arson/incendiarism	44
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Smoking	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	3

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 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020COWETA001
5 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020COWETA006
14 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020COWETA002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coweta 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 Arnco Mills: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sam Hill Quarry	Granite	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Coweta County

Storms near this place

5 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arnco Mills in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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
May 2010	Lightning	Arnco Mills	$150,000	The Times Herald of Newnan reported that lightning struck the electrical line of a home in the Arnco community causing a fire. Two rooms of the wood home suffered extensive damage from the fire. The remainder of the home suffered smoke damage.
December 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Arnco Mills	$15,000	The Coweta County Emergency Manager reported several trees blown down across the county. Several roads were blocked by downed trees and one tree fell onto a house causing some damage.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Arnco Mills	$10,000	An off-duty National Weather Service Employee reported Multiple trees and large branches blown down. Locations include around the intersection of Welcome Road and the Newnan Bypass; along Highway 27 between the Bypass and Sargent; and at the Coweta Samaritan Clinic on Jackson Street.
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Arnco Mills	$1,000	Large tree downed near intersection of main street and 1 st street in arnco.
January 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Arnco Mills	-	Report of tree down on Witcher Rd and near Hwy 16.

Every storm recorded in Coweta 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
Sargent	1.5 miles	10
Welcome	1.7 miles	10
Gloverton	1.7 miles	10
Wedgewood	2.1 miles	10
Lynhaven	2.4 miles	10
Windsor Estates	2.4 miles	10
Sherwood Forest	2.4 miles	10
West Newnan	2.4 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 354392. 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.