Cooksville, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Franklin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30230. It stands on Clear Creek. The Survey maps it on the Hogansville quadrangle.

Cooksville within Heard County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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.

1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Hogansville quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

169 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 169 fires within 5 miles of Cooksville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 675 acres in total. 7 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 burning	88
Arson/incendiarism	34
Smoking	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2002	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2003-HEARD-002
8 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Smoking	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-TROUP-003
4 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-HEARD-004
25 September 1993	Debris and open burning	7.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Heard County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cooksville in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2014: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 hail. The reports record 1 injury. 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
April 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Cooksville	1 hurt, $1,500,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that the EF0 tornado, which first touched down in north central Troup county, continued across far southeast Heard county before moving into southwest Coweta county. The tornado strengthened to an EF1 rating through much of Heard county and into Coweta county. A little over four miles of the tornado path was within southeast Heard county, while the entire path length of this tornado was on the order of 17 miles. The maximum path width was determined to be 100 yards with maximum winds of 90 mph. Much of the structural damage associated with this tornado occurred within Heard county, especially in an around the city of Corinth in the far southeast corner of the county. A hauling and horse trailer were damaged as they were thrown about 20 feet from their original location. Three homes and/or businesses were destroyed, two others suffered major damage, and an additional 10 others sustained minor damage. One home lost two exterior walls and its roof. Thousands of trees were uprooted along the path of the tornado. There was one injury, but no fatalities reported from this tornado within Heard county.\|\|[04/27-04/28/11: Tornado #8, County #2-3, EF1, Troup-Heard-Coweta, 2011:017].
January 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cooksville	$25,000	The Heard County Emergency Management Director reported that several trees were down on Georgia Highway 34 in the extreme southeast part of the county, in the Cooksville and Corinth areas. Trees were down on several homes on Elm Street just inside the Heard county line.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Cooksville	$3,000	The Heard County 911 Center reported that several trees were blown down scattered about the entire county.
April 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Cooksville	$1,000	A National Weather Service storm survey team determined that the EF-2 tornado that touched down in Troup County weakened as it crossed into Heard County, resulting in only minor tree damage before lifting.\|[04/28/14: Tornado #1, County #2-2, EF2, Troup-Heard, 2014:004].
February 2005	Hail	Cooksville	-	The public reported penny-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Heard 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
Five Points	2.2 miles	12
Corinth	2.8 miles	10
Capstan (historical)	3.9 miles	12
Wilsons Store	4.4 miles	9
Owensbyville	5.9 miles	12
Franklin	5.9 miles	12
Riverside	6.5 miles	12
Enon Grove	7.0 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355281. 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.