Calvin, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eudora census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31064. The Survey maps it on the Farrar quadrangle.

Calvin within Jasper County

On record in Calvin

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 2 records

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Phillips-Turner-Kelly Houselisted 2003 · 0.2 miles away
Pope-Talmadge Houselisted 2009 · 0.5 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Farrar quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

216 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Calvin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 626 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 22 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	142
Arson/incendiarism	22
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Recreation and ceremony	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Natural	5
Smoking	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
7 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2015	Debris and open burning	3.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-JASPER-002
3 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-JASPER-010
27 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	2.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-JASPER-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

4 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Calvin in 4 storm reports in 2011: 2 hail, 2 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
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvin	$4,000	The Jasper County 911 Center reported that more than six trees were down across the county. Some of the trees were blocking roadways.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Calvin	$1,000	The Jasper County 911 Center reported that a couple of trees and one power line were down in the North Alcovy area in the far northwest part of the county.
April 2011	Hail	Calvin	-	The Jasper County 911 Center relayed reports of penny-sized hail near Monticello. WSR-88D radar data suggests that similar, possibly larger hail, fell near Turtle Cove and the Butts county line.
September 2011	Hail	Calvin	-	The Jackson County 911 Center relayed a report of penny-sized hail in the Turtle Cove area near the Butts county line.

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Blackwell	1.5 miles	11
Palato	2.1 miles	11
Maxwell	3.4 miles	11
Bethel	3.6 miles	12
Prospect	3.6 miles	12
Monticello	5.3 miles	11
Benton Crossing (historical)	5.8 miles	11
Hardys Crossroads	5.9 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331310. 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.