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Center, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Nicholson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30565. It stands on Shankles Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nicholson quadrangle.

Center within Jackson 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.

Fires near this place

113 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 113 fires within 5 miles of Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 406 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 25 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 burning60
Arson/incendiarism25
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking3
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2007Debris and open burning3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1993Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 August 2007Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-JACKSON-004
29 August 2014Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-MADISON-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this place

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Center in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindCenter$50,000The Jackson County 911 Center reported extensive wind damage in the southeast part of the county, just southwest of Center. The roof of a commercial building collapsed and damage was also reported to a gymnasium next door. At least 10 trees and several power lines were down in the vicinity as well.
June 2019Flash FloodCenter$10,000New Kings Bridge Road was closed at Shankles Creek between Sawdust Trail and Tommy Barnett Road due to erosion from flood waters around the culvert. Radar estimates indicate that three to four inches of rain occurred over the area in a short period of time, resulting in excessive runoff and flash flooding of Shankles Creek.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCenter$6,000A report was received from the public of multiple trees and power lines blown down along Highway 334 near Asgar Farms Road.
May 2024Thunderstorm WindCenter$5,000EM reports multiple trees down at Jefferson Bridge Rd near New King Bridge Rd.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindCenter$1,000Tree down on powerlines near the intersection of Jefferson River Road and Chandler Bridge Road.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindCenter$1,000The Jackson County Emergency Management Director reported that a portion of a tin roof was blown off a home.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindCenter$1,000Jackson county 911 reported trees down in the south half of the county.
March 2017HailCenter-Quarter size hail was reported at a farm between Shilo Road and U.S. Highway 441.
August 1999HailCenter-Several public reports indicated dime to quarter size hail. It covered the ground in some areas.

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Nicholson4.1 miles14
Clarksboro4.3 miles14
Attica4.6 miles14
Red Stone4.7 miles12
Talassee (historical)5.5 miles12
Brockton6.0 miles14
Arcade7.7 miles12
Thyatira8.4 miles13

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 CenterAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28455285The 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 355074. 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.