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Blackville, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Gillis Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31002. The Survey maps it on the Soperton North quadrangle.

Blackville within Treutlen County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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

424 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 424 fires within 5 miles of Blackville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,262 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 30 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 burning260
Equipment and vehicle use47
Natural39
Arson/incendiarism30
Smoking19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony10
Misuse of fire by a minor2

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 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TREUTLEN-012
8 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-LAURENS-043
7 September 1999Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1998Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1993Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Treutlen 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 Blackville: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducerAlluvium

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Blackville in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 1 tornado. 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
January 2024Thunderstorm WindBlackville$4,000Several trees down along GA hwy 86 on north side of the county.
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBlackville$250The Truetlen County Sheriff's Office reported that one tree was blown down on Georgia Highway 86. The road was partially blocked as a result.
April 2022Tornado (EF0)Blackville-A brief QLCS EF0 tornado quickly evolved within the line of |storms which moved through Central GA on the afternoon of Tuesday |April 5, 2022. The tornado touched down southeast of Adrian along |Hidden Acres Ln where several trees were snapped and uprooted. The|tornado continued NE crossing Crooked Run Rd before lifting. [4/5/22: Tornado #13, County #1/1, EF-0, Treutlen, 2022:016].
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBlackville-Trees down at Norris Road and Crooked Run Road.
August 2006FloodBlackville-The Treutlen County 911 Center reported that Georgia Highways 15 and 86 in the northern portion of the county, particularly between Blackville and Five Points, had spots where the water was four to six inches deep. However, no roads were closed or washed out. A large cluster of thunderstorms with very heavy rain drifted slowly south through the county in a one to two hour period, roughly from 730 pm to 930 pm EDT. Rainfall rates of 2-3 inches/hour were noted in the northern portion of the county, mainly north of Interstate-16, during this period.

Every storm recorded in Treutlen 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
Orianna2.5 miles9
Orland5.2 miles9
Gillis Springs5.9 miles9
Soperton7.3 miles9
Five Points8.1 miles9
Zaidee8.3 miles8
Lothair9.3 miles8
Barnhill11.4 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331180. 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.