Arp, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Southeast Banks census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30530. The Survey maps it on the Homer quadrangle.

Arp within Banks County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1891 USGS Carnesville quadrangle1:125000, 6 printings
1954 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Greenville quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Homer quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Commerce quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Arp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 192 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 5 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	70
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Natural	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
30 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BANKS-003
27 September 2019	Debris and open burning	1.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020FRANKLIN005
16 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BANKS-002
24 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 August 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
19 August 1999	Debris and open burning	4.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 August 1992	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 July 2007	Arson/incendiarism	10.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Banks County

Storms near this place

3 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Arp in 3 storm reports between 2011 and 2023: 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Arp	$2,000	An off duty National Weather Service employee reported that around six trees were down from mile marker 152 to mile marker 155 on Interstate-85 near and just northeast of Banks Crossing.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Arp	$1,000	Tree down 2100 Block Hwy 59 .
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Arp	$1,000	The Banks County Highway Department reported a tree blown down across Highway 59 in front of the Beaver Dam Baptist Church.

Every storm recorded in Banks 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
Carlan	2.0 miles	14
Hebron	2.9 miles	14
Banks Crossing	4.4 miles	14
Mount Pleasant	4.5 miles	14
Jewelville	4.5 miles	14
Five Points	4.7 miles	14
Homer	5.0 miles	14
Erastus	5.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 347177. 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.