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Cromers, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1891 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Sandy Cross census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30662. The Survey maps it on the Ashland quadrangle.

Cromers within Franklin County

On record in Cromers

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Cromers between 1992 and 2019, burning about 257 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Equipment and vehicle use10
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Natural4
Smoking4

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
28 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
22 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020FRANKLIN004
21 September 2019Debris and open burning1.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020FRANKLIN003
17 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
12 September 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020FRANKLIN002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cromers: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
Higdon MineMicaPast Producer
Ramsay Buchanan MineMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this place

6 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cromers in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2018: 4 hail, 2 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
August 2018Thunderstorm WindCromers-County comms reported trees blown down along Athens and Cole roads.
March 2017Thunderstorm WindCromers-County comms reported trees and power lines blown down along Sandy Cross Road.
April 2017HailCromers-Public and spotter reported quarter size hail from south of Carnesville to the Franklin Springs area.
April 2015HailCromers-Spotters reported golf ball size hail across southern Franklin County.
April 2012HailCromers-Nickel size hail fell along Atkinson Bridge Rd.
April 2012HailCromers-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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
Sandy Cross2.2 miles15
Zidon (historical)2.6 miles15
Ashland5.9 miles14
Franklin Springs6.4 miles15
Walnut Hill (historical)6.6 miles14
Carnesville6.7 miles15
Unity7.6 miles13
Plainview7.9 miles14

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.

Wikipedia article on CromersAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888702The 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 355378. 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.