Carnegie, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Cuthbert census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39840. The Survey maps it on the Carnegie quadrangle.

Carnegie within Randolph County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Carnegie quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

163 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 163 fires within 5 miles of Carnegie between 1992 and 2019, burning about 774 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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	117
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Natural	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-CALHOUN-003
23 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-CALHOUN-001
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2019	Debris and open burning	17 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020RANDOLPH004
12 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020RANDOLPH003
11 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CALHOUN-012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Randolph County

Storms near this place

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Carnegie in 5 storm reports between 2004 and 2017: 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. The reports record 6 injuries. 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 2004	Tornado (F1)	Carnegie	6 hurt, $100,000	The tornado continued on a northeast track from Clay County, downing trees and power lines along its path through southern Randolph County. Before lifting, it destroyed a mobile home on County Road 6, off Fountain Bridge Road. Its six occupants sustained minor injuries. Reported by the Cuthbert Fire/EMS and Albany Herald.
January 2017	Tornado (EF2)	Carnegie	$200,000	The tornado touched down in Clay County and moved northeast through the northwest corner of Calhoun County and into southern Randolph County. It caused extensive tree damage with nearly every tree in its path snapped through the Clay and Calhoun portions of the track. In addition, it flipped a mobile home in Clay County, injuring one person who was inside. The tornado caused major roof damage in Clay and Calhoun counties removing the roofing structure from two homes. It also caused minor roofing damage to several homes in all three counties. Damage cost was estimated.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnegie	$1,000	A tree was blown down and resulted in a power outage via the Georgia Power outage website.
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Carnegie	-	Trees were blown down on Highway 216.
April 2006	Hail	Carnegie	-	Penny size hail reported by the Randolph County EMA.

Every storm recorded in Randolph 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
Grubb (historical)	2.0 miles	7
Shivers Mill	3.1 miles	7
Bass Store	3.2 miles	7
Blackburns Store (historical)	4.8 miles	7
Goffs Mill	6.2 miles	7
Coleman	6.2 miles	7
Coles	8.2 miles	7
Martins Crossroads	8.3 miles	7

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 Carnegie	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888645	The 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 354995. 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.