Clopine, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fort Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31030. The Survey maps it on the Perry West quadrangle.

Clopine within Peach County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1972 USGS Perry West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

270 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 270 fires within 5 miles of Clopine between 1992 and 2020, burning about 691 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 21 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	161
Equipment and vehicle use	42
Arson/incendiarism	21
Smoking	10
Natural	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

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
7 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021HOUSTON002
6 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-PEACH-007
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2008	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Peach 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 Clopine: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Adel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Peach County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clopine in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2019: 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 2019	Lightning	Clopine	$200,000	The Peach County Emergency Manager reported a home was struck by lightning on Clopine Lake Road just south of Sam Nunn Boulevard. The lightning strike caused a fire that completely consumed the home. No injuries were reported.
March 2005	Flash Flood	Clopine	$25,000	The Peach County 911 Center reported a partial failure of the Clopine Lake Dam in the far southeast part of the county just off U.S. Highway 341. Nearly two-thirds of the water in the lake flowed through the breach in the dam into Big Indian Creek.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Clopine	$1,000	The Peach County 911 Center reported that a home suffered some minor roof damage from thunderstorm wind gusts.

Every storm recorded in Peach 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
Myrtle	0.8 miles	9
Oak Grove	3.2 miles	10
Fagan	4.1 miles	10
Albaugh	4.4 miles	10
Miami Valley	4.8 miles	10
Edgewood	5.4 miles	10
Bryn Mawr	5.8 miles	10
Peach Valley	6.1 miles	11

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 Q122596852

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 331418. 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.