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Clarking, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1918 and the latest in 1994. It stands in the St. George census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31562. The Survey maps it on the Saint George quadrangle.

Clarking within Charlton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

194 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 194 fires within 5 miles of Clarking between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,526 acres in total. 84 started naturally. 38 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
Natural84
Debris and open burning52
Arson/incendiarism38
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
6 September 2020Natural4.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2021CHARLTON011
4 September 2006Natural3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2014Natural45 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-CHARLTON-009
24 September 1997Natural13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-CHARLTON-016
8 August 1993Natural25 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 1993Natural15 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 August 2010Natural44 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-CHARLTON-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Charlton 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 Clarking: 1 plant. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Aluminum, Kyanite, Titanium, Zirconium. 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
Highland ConcentratorAluminum, Kyanite, Titanium, ZirconiumPlant

Every working recorded in Charlton County

Storms near this place

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarking in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2021: 1 tornado, 1 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
July 2021FloodClarking-Water flooded portion of Highway 94 between Fargo and Moniac.
March 2008Tornado (EF1)Clarking-A total of 5 houses were damaged with one house sustaining major structural damage. Possible tornado induced damage was along State Road 185 near Mile Marker 2. Numerous power lines were reported down in southern Charlton County. The mesocyclone which dropped this tornado was tracked through Columbia and Baker Counties in Florida and spanned several tornadoes there. The mesocyclone also moved into western Nassau County Florida with a brief touchdown there.

Every storm recorded in Charlton 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
Boggy1.8 miles11
Saint George4.3 miles13
Moniac5.7 miles11
Toledo9.0 miles12
Stokesville9.6 miles13
Stanley Landing17.0 miles11
Traders Hill18.7 miles11
Ferry Landing19.1 miles11

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.

Wikidata item Q122572846The 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 331407. 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.