Culverton, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Mayfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31087. The Survey maps it on the Sparta quadrangle. It stands 554 feet above sea level.

Culverton within Hancock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Sparta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

168 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Culverton between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,202 acres in total. 18 started naturally. 8 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	96
Natural	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Smoking	12
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Recreation and ceremony	1

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
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019HANCOCK002
29 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HANCOCK-023
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HANCOCK-005
18 September 1999	Smoking	7.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 2011	Natural	30 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HANCOCK-021
12 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
10 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2015-HANCOCK-005
1 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock County

Storms near this place

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Culverton in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2009: 2 hail, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death and 3 injuries. 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
February 2009	Tornado (EF3)	Culverton	1 killed, 3 hurt, $500,000	A storm survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that an EF3 tornado touched down approximately five miles east-southeast of Sparta, or about three miles east of the intersection of Georgia Highway 15 and 16. The tornado then moved along a nearly eight-mile long path across far southeast Hancock county and continued into extreme southern Warren county and then into extreme northwest Glascock county. The total tornado path length was nearly 11 miles long. The maximum path width was estimated to be 500 yards with maximum winds of 140 mph. A church, two site-built homes, and four mobile homes were completely destroyed in the Hickory Grove Community. One fatality and three injuries occurred where the mobile homes were destroyed. Hundreds of trees were either uprooted or snapped along the path of the tornado.
March 2008	Hail	Culverton	-	The public observed quarter-sized hail on the east side of Lake Sinclair. Radar supported quarter or larger-sized hail with two separate storms further north, north and northeast of Sparta in the same time frame.
December 2005	Hail	Culverton	-	A storm spotter reported quarter-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Hancock 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
Sunshine (historical)	1.5 miles	10
Granite Hill	2.4 miles	10
Sparta	4.9 miles	10
Mayfield	6.0 miles	10
Mount Zion	7.0 miles	10
Springfield	7.7 miles	10
Eureka (historical)	7.9 miles	10
Glenford (historical)	8.1 miles	10

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 Culverton	An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5193755	The 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 355405. 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.