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Charlotteville, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Uvalda census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30473. The Survey maps it on the Uvalda quadrangle.

Charlotteville within Montgomery County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 10 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

229 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 229 fires within 5 miles of Charlotteville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,171 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 34 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 burning125
Arson/incendiarism34
Equipment and vehicle use27
Natural11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking8
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Recreation and ceremony7

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 2008Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MONTGOMERY-005
7 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-TOOMBS-014
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-MONTGOMERY-008
25 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021WHEELER004
25 September 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021WHEELER003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Montgomery County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Charlotteville: 2 producers. 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
Lott MineSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Mobley PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Montgomery County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Charlotteville in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
April 2017Thunderstorm WindCharlotteville$10,000The Montgomery County 911 center reported trees and power line sblown down around Uvalda.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindCharlotteville$2,000The Toombs County 911 Center relayed reports of several downed trees across the southern portion of Montgomery County.
August 2020Flash FloodCharlotteville-The Emergency Manager reported water over Red Hill Road. Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 4 inches of rain quickly fell over the area.
January 2012HailCharlotteville-A member of the general public reported 1.00 inch hail south of Uvalda.

Every storm recorded in Montgomery 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
Uvalda1.8 miles10
Alston5.3 miles8
Oak Grove8.2 miles9
Petross9.9 miles9
Mount Vernon12.2 miles9
Ailey12.4 miles9
McGregor12.8 miles9
Higgston14.5 miles9

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 CharlottevilleAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888662The 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 331375. 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.