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Dialtown, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Covington-Porterdale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30054. The Survey maps it on the Jersey quadrangle.

Dialtown within Newton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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

259 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 259 fires within 5 miles of Dialtown between 1992 and 2019, burning about 445 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 24 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 burning107
Equipment and vehicle use32
Arson/incendiarism24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined24
Natural20
Smoking18
Misuse of fire by a minor13
Railroad operations and maintenance11
Recreation and ceremony10

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
5 September 2002Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-NEWTON-007
30 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-NEWTON-003
3 September 2007Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
27 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-NEWTON-003
23 September 2010Debris and open burning5.6 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-NEWTON-004
16 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1997Debris and open burning13 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Newton 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 Dialtown: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Newton County QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Oxford QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Newton County

Storms near this place

6 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dialtown in 6 storm reports between 2005 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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 2017Tornado (EF1)Dialtown$25,000A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF1 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 88 MPH and a maximum path width of 350 yards touched down in far northern Newton County along the Walton County line. This is where the most damage occurred, mainly along Wapakoneta Trail. Multiple softwood trees were snapped and uprooted with one causing damage to a vehicle. The tornado quickly moved eastward into Walton County. No injuries were reported. [04/05/17: Tornado #2, County #1/2, EF-1, Newton, Walton, 2017:061].
June 2020Thunderstorm WindDialtown$10,000The Newton County Emergency Manager reported trees and power lines blown down across the county from around the intersection of Hickory Hill Drive and Mt. Zion Road southeast across Covington to around the intersections of Johnson River Road and at East End Road and King Bostick Road at Moores Road.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindDialtown$5,000Several trees down along dial mill Rd also near the intersection of Hightower Trail.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindDialtown-Two trees down on a house along Industrial Park Blvd NE near Old Georgetown Rd.
March 2009HailDialtown-An amateur radio operator relayed a report of quarter-sized hail from extreme northern Newton county in the Gum Creek area near the Rockdale county line.
February 2005HailDialtown-The public reported quarter-sized hail between Oxford near Flint Hill or about half way between Oxford in Newton county and Walnut Grove in Walton county.

Every storm recorded in Newton 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
Murphy Hills0.3 miles17
Meadow View0.6 miles17
Essex Village0.9 miles17
Airport Grove1.0 miles17
Greenwood Acres1.1 miles17
Cedar Ridge1.5 miles17
Pine Top Hill1.6 miles17
Cambridge Forest1.6 miles20

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 Q122562094The 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 331544. 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.