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Cork, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Flovilla census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30216. It stands on Little Sandy Creek. The Survey maps it on the Berner quadrangle.

Cork within Butts County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

250 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 250 fires within 5 miles of Cork between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,222 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 28 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 burning123
Arson/incendiarism28
Railroad operations and maintenance26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Equipment and vehicle use16
Smoking15
Recreation and ceremony9
Natural8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
30 September 1993Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 1999Railroad operations and maintenance21 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2019MONROE001
7 August 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butts County

Mines and quarries near this place

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Cork: 4 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Feldspar, Vermiculite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Athen ProspectVermiculite, MicaProspect
Feldspar Corp Jasper Quarry AFeldsparPast Producer
Westbrooks ProspectMica, FeldsparProspect
Arnall ProspectMicaOccurrence
C M Sutton ProspectMicaProspect
E J Goggins ProspectMicaProspect
Smith MineMicaPast Producer

Storms near this place

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cork in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2018: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
April 2011Tornado (EF0)Cork$30,000A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that the tornado, which originated in southeast Pike county, strengthened to an EF3 and tracked across central Lamar resulting in extensive structural damage and two fatalities, then into northern Monroe county as an EF2, also causing extensive structural damage, weakened to an EF0 and briefly moved into extreme southeast Butts county before finally lifting. The tornado was in Butts county only about 1/2 mile. Damage within Butts county was confined to several downed trees in the area. One structure within Butts county suffered major damage along this final segment of the tornado's path.||[04/27-04/28/11: Tornado #12, County #4-4, EF3, Pike-Lamar-Monroe-Butts, 2011:021].
July 2003Thunderstorm WindCork$30,000The Jackson News Argus reported that a large 150 year-old Red Oak tree was uprooted during a thunderstorm. The tree fell on a 1992 Buick, destroying the vehicle, and also caused damage to the garage and part of the house. A cat, hiding underneath the vehicle, was also killed during the event.
June 2018Thunderstorm WindCork$1,000The Butts County 911 center reported a tree blown down near the intersection of Highway 87 and Mt. Pleasant Church Road.

Every storm recorded in Butts 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
Sandy1.4 miles14
Flovilla3.2 miles12
Indian Springs3.5 miles14
Iron Springs Crossroads5.2 miles12
Bibb (historical)5.6 miles12
Pepperton6.8 miles12
Elgin (historical)7.5 miles11
Jackson7.6 miles12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331461. 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.