Clinton, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Gray-Macon East census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31032. It stands on Mason Branch. The Survey maps it on the Macon NE quadrangle. It stands 548 feet above sea level.

Clinton within Jones County

On record in Clinton

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 1 record

Old Clinton Historic Districtlisted 1974

Surveyed buildings and structures 3 records

Johnson House, Clintonfederal building survey, 6 photographs
Lowther Hall, Clintonfederal building survey, 13 photographs
Mitchell-Barron House, Washington & Madison Streets, Clintonfederal building survey, 16 photographs

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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.

1956 USGS Macon quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Macon NE quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Photographs

8 of 12 photographs shown, 1939

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Jade-Barron House, Clinton, Jones County, Georgia
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1939. Library of Congress

Lowther Hall, Clinton, Jones County, Georgia
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1939. Library of Congress

Johnson House?, Clinton, Jones County, Georgia
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1939. Library of Congress

Johnson House, Clinton, Jones County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Mitchell-Barron House, Washington & Madison Streets, Clinton, Jones County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Lowther Hall, Clinton, Jones County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Every photograph of Jones County

Fires near this place

331 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 331 fires within 5 miles of Clinton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 822 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 19 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	213
Misuse of fire by a minor	24
Arson/incendiarism	19
Equipment and vehicle use	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Smoking	13
Natural	13
Recreation and ceremony	11
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
6 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019JONES001
3 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-JONES-003
23 September 1997	Debris and open burning	22 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019JONES004
20 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	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 Jones County

Storms near this place

12 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clinton in 12 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 6 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 lightning. 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
June 2004	Lightning	Clinton	$150,000	The Jones county Emergency Management Director reported that lightning struck a tree adjacent to a brick home. The lightning apparently arced over to the roof, blowing a hole in the roof and setting the home on fire. The home was nearly a total loss.
January 2006	Hail	Clinton	$100,000	WXGA Television of Macon, Georgia broadcast a report from the public of baseball size hail in southwest Jones county, six to eight miles north-northeast of Macon. A number of vehicles sustained damage in the area.
February 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Clinton	$50,000	A storm survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia in cooperation with the Georgia State Patrol confirmed that the same supercell thunderstorm that spawned tornadoes across southern Alabama and into Stewart, Chattahoochee, Marion, Taylor, and Crawford counties, spawned yet another EF0 tornado in extreme western Jones county near the Bibb county line, just east of Arkwright. The tornado path length was determined to be approximately three miles long with a maximum damage path width of 100 yards. Maximum winds were estimated at 90 mph. A home in the River North Subdivision near the Bibb county line suffered substantial roof and window damage. Numerous trees were blown down along the path of the tornado.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$5,000	The Jones County 911 Center reported that at least 10 trees and several powerlines were blown down across the county.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$3,000	The Jones County 911 Center reported that a couple of power lines and a couple of trees were down mainly across the southwest half of the county near the Bibb and Twiggs county lines. WSR-88D base velocity data indicated that the strongest winds moved through this area of the county.
August 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$2,000	The local broadcast media reported trees and power lines blown down around the intersection of Gray Highway and Lite-N-Tie Road.
November 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$1,500	The Jones County 911 Center reported trees down in the Clinton area.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$1,500	Broadcast Media reported seven trees down southwest of Gray.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Clinton	$1,000	Tree down at Randolph Street and Pulaski Street.
March 2022	Hail	Clinton	-	Quarter sized hail and smaller reported covering the ground near the intersection of Stone Brooke Dr and Caps Dr.
May 2005	Hail	Clinton	-	Three reports of penny-sized hail were received west and southwest of Gray.
July 2003	Flash Flood	Clinton	-	The public reported that some roads in the Clinton area were flooded and impassable.

Every storm recorded in Jones 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
Gray	1.4 miles	11
Bragg	2.0 miles	11
Morton	2.1 miles	12
Bradley	3.8 miles	11
Pine Ridge	3.9 miles	10
Cumslo	4.1 miles	12
James	4.9 miles	10
Three Points	4.9 miles	12

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 Clinton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28912744	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 355194. 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.