Clarks Mill, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Dawson census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39842. It stands on Herod Creek. The Survey maps it on the Chickasawhatchee quadrangle.

Clarks Mill within Terrell County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 surveys from 9 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
1956 USGS Sasser quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1973 USGS Chickasawhatchee quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Clarks Mill between 1992 and 2019, burning about 556 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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	55
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
29 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2018-CALHOUN-001
28 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2006	Debris and open burning	19 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
26 September 2019	Debris and open burning	85 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2020TERRELL003
24 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CALHOUN-014
20 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Terrell County

Storms near this place

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clarks Mill in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2018: 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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
February 2016	Tornado (EF1)	Clarks Mill	-	Damage along this path was primarily to pine and pecan trees. A portion of the southern end was a focused area of uprooted and snapped mature pines. Much of the tornado track ran along Bobby Locke Road. This tornado was rated EF1 with max winds estimated around 90 mph.
March 2018	Hail	Clarks Mill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Terrell 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
Herod	4.0 miles	9
Doverel	4.9 miles	7
Chickasawhatchee	6.2 miles	10
Sasser	8.2 miles	10
Dawson	9.0 miles	7
Graves	9.0 miles	7
Bridges Crossroad	10.3 miles	7
Belmont (historical)	12.1 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331410. 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.