Dakota, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ashburn-Sycamore census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31714. The Survey maps it on the Arabi quadrangle.

Dakota within Turner County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1977 USGS Arabi quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Cordele quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Photographs

3 photographs, 1977

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Rocky Mount Baptist Church, Dakota Baptist Church, High Hill Baptist Church, abandoned church building, Turner County, Georgia, buildings and grounds
Marshall, Howard W, 1977. Library of Congress

New Prospect Free Will Baptist Church, Lumpkin house, Rocky Mount Baptist Church, Dakota Baptist Church, High Hill Baptist Church, Turner County, Georgia
Marshall, Howard W. (Collector), 1977. Library of Congress

Wiregrass plant, Irwin County, Georgia; A.M. Burkett, Ashburn , Georgia; Gordy Jones gourd martin houses, Dakota, Georgia; Rocky Mount Baptist Church and Oak Grove Baptist Church, Turner County, Georgia, buildings and grounds
Lightfoot, William E. (William Edwin), 1940-, 1977. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

297 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 297 fires within 5 miles of Dakota between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,220 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 55 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	157
Arson/incendiarism	55
Equipment and vehicle use	52
Natural	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Smoking	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	3.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
23 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
22 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
21 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TURNER-012

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Turner County

Storms near this place

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dakota in 12 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 3 hail, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dakota	1 killed, $250,000	An NWS survey team determined that straight line winds of 80 mph moved across Turner county. The severe winds downed hundreds of trees, knocked over a church steeple, and removed shingles and metal roofing from mobile homes and well-constructed outbuildings. In addition, a few mobile homes were damaged by falling trees and one outbuilding was destroyed when the wind shifted it off the blocks on which it was located. This resulted in one fatality. The damage was confined to roughly a 6.5 mile by 4 mile box. Damage cost was estimated.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Dakota	$10,000	Numerous trees and power lines were blown down across Turner county. Damage was estimated.
May 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Dakota	$3,000	Multiple trees and power lines were blown down in western Turner county.
June 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Dakota	$1,000	Thunderstorm winds knocked down five trees in the northwest portion of Turner County. One of the trees were blocking Georgia Highway 41 north.
December 2018	Flood	Dakota	-	Water from a nearby creek affected a home with flooding.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dakota	-	Trees were blown down on Alberson Road.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dakota	-	Trees were blown down on Ireland Road.
January 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Dakota	-	Trees were blown down on Warwick Highway.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Dakota	-	A tree was blown down across Warwick Highway.
May 1999	Hail	Dakota	-	Golfball size hail reported by Turner County EMA.
May 2024	Hail	Dakota	-	no account filed
May 2024	Hail	Dakota	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Turner 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
Sibley	1.8 miles	7
Worth	2.0 miles	7
Shinglers (historical)	3.7 miles	7
Ashburn	5.3 miles	7
Armboy	5.7 miles	7
Felder (historical)	7.6 miles	7
Sycamore	7.6 miles	7
High Springs (historical)	8.2 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355422. 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.