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10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1907 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Warm Springs census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31830. The Survey maps it on the Durand quadrangle. It stands 860 feet above sea level.

County Line within Meriwether County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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

166 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 166 fires within 5 miles of County Line between 1992 and 2020, burning about 540 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 16 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 burning93
Arson/incendiarism16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Equipment and vehicle use11
Smoking10
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural5
Railroad operations and maintenance5

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
9 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2013-HARRIS-001
6 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-HARRIS-006
26 September 1996Debris and open burning1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1996Debris and open burning1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020HARRIS003
23 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use5.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Meriwether County

Mines and quarries near this place

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of County Line: 4 prospects, 1 past producer, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum. 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
ProspectAluminumProspect
Red Bauxite OutcropAluminumOccurrence
Republic MineAluminumPast Producer
Smith Prospect No. 1AluminumProspect
Smith Prospect No. 2AluminumProspect
Turner ProspectAluminumProspect

Every working recorded in Meriwether County

Storms near this place

1 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names County Line in 1 storm report in 2011: 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 (EF2)County Line$6,000,000A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that the EF2 tornado that first touched down in northeast Harris county continued across southern Meriwether county before moving into Upson county where it finally lifted approximately nine miles northwest of Thomaston. The tornado crossed into Meriwether county about four miles southwest of Warm Springs and moved into Upson county just under five miles southeast of Woodbury. The tornado traveled almost 13 miles through Meriwether county. The maximum path width diminished to 1/2 mile with the maximum winds estimated to still be 130 mph. Thousands of trees were destroyed along the path of the tornado. Several homes, barns, and outbuildings also suffered damage along the path of the tornado. There were no fatalities or injuries with this tornado in Meriwether county.||The two tornadoes within Meriwether county resulted in 35 destroyed homes and/or businesses, 21 structures with major damage, and 15 other structures with minor damage for a total of 71 affected structures.||[04/27-04/28/11: Tornado #10, County #2-3, EF2, Harris-Meriwether-Upson, 2011:019].

Every storm recorded in Meriwether 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
Durand2.7 miles10
Cameo (historical)2.7 miles10
White Sulphur Springs2.8 miles10
Crowders Crossing4.4 miles22
Warm Springs4.7 miles22
Nebula5.2 miles22
Hunters Crossroad5.6 miles10
Bullochville (historical)6.2 miles22

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 Q4845840The 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 346853. 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.