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East Thomaston, Georgia

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1935 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Thomaston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30286. The Survey maps it on the Thomaston quadrangle.

East Thomaston within Upson County

On record in East Thomaston

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 4 records

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

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 12 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

497 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 497 fires within 5 miles of East Thomaston between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,482 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 64 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 burning289
Arson/incendiarism64
Misuse of fire by a minor36
Equipment and vehicle use36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined36
Natural15
Recreation and ceremony13
Smoking6
Railroad operations and maintenance2

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 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1997Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-UPSON-003
5 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undetermined4.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-UPSON-011
3 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-UPSON-007
29 September 2019Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020UPSON013

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Upson County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of East Thomaston: 14 prospects, 12 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
B S Gibson ProspectsMicaProspect
Barron MineMicaPast Producer
Bennie Barron MineMicaPast Producer
Bentley ProspectMicaProspect
Boyt MineMicaPast Producer
Brown MineMicaPast Producer
Corley MineMicaPast Producer
Corley ProspectsMicaProspect
Cumbie ProspectsMicaProspect
Emmit Trice ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Upson County

Storms near this place

1 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Thomaston in 1 storm report in 2002: 1 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
July 2002Thunderstorm WindEast Thomaston$500An amateur radio operator reported that one inch tree limbs were down in East Thomaston near the intersection of Georgia Highway 36 and Georgia Highway 74. Trees were reported down in Thomaston by the public.

Every storm recorded in Upson 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
Thomaston0.6 miles12
Lincoln Park1.7 miles12
Silvertown1.8 miles12
Paynes Mill2.3 miles12
McKinney2.8 miles12
Redbone Crossroads3.5 miles12
Hannahs Mill3.5 miles12
Blacksboro (historical)4.2 miles12

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 Q122562991The 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 331625. 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.