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Corinth, 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. The Survey maps it on the Hogansville quadrangle.

Corinth 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.

Fires near this place

180 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 180 fires within 5 miles of Corinth between 1992 and 2020, burning about 970 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 31 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 burning87
Arson/incendiarism31
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Smoking11
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use6
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Recreation and ceremony3

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
8 September 2002Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-HEARD-002
8 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Smoking1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1997Arson/incendiarism3.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-TROUP-003
4 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 1997Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 2000Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-TROUP-010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Heard County

Storms near this place

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corinth in 5 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
June 2023Thunderstorm WindCorinth$1,000Emergency manager reported a tree down on Minardi Dr in SE Heard County.
April 2011HailCorinth-The public observed quarter-sized hail, possibly larger, in the far southeast corner of the county near Corinth.
March 2003HailCorinth-The Coweta county 911 center relayed a report of penny size hail.
June 2002HailCorinth-The Heard county 911 center reported golf ball size hail.
June 1998HailCorinth-no account filed

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cooksville2.8 miles10
Five Points5.1 miles12
Wilsons Store5.4 miles9
Capstan (historical)6.4 miles12
Owensbyville8.0 miles12
Enon Grove8.4 miles12
Franklin8.7 miles12
Riverside9.3 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 312974. 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.