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Eldorado, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Eldorado census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31794. The Survey maps it on the Lenox quadrangle.

Eldorado within Tift County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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.

Photographs

1 photograph, 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.

Scenes in and near Eldorado, Georgia; Faye and Alan Milton farm, Berrien County, Georgia, crafts and antiques
Scenes in and near Eldorado, Georgia; Faye and Alan Milton farm, Berrien County, Georgia, crafts and antiques
Adler, Thomas A, 1977. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

399 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 399 fires within 5 miles of Eldorado between 1992 and 2020, burning about 910 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 33 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 burning260
Equipment and vehicle use47
Arson/incendiarism33
Smoking23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural3

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 2004Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
9 September 1995Debris and open burning3.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2002Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-COOK-020
4 September 1999Debris and open burning44 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 1997Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2015Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2016-TIFT-005

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tift County

Storms near this place

2 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eldorado in 2 storm reports between 2012 and 2023: 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
February 2012Thunderstorm WindEldorado$1,000The 911 call center reported that a tree was blown down near the county line. Monetary damage was estimated.
January 2023Thunderstorm WindEldorado-A 5 to 7 mile path of sporadic tree damage was determined to be straight line winds.

Every storm recorded in Tift 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
Linder2.4 miles9
Iniss (historical)3.5 miles9
Kelltown3.9 miles9
Unionville5.7 miles9
Omega5.8 miles8
Vanceville6.0 miles9
Phillipsburg6.2 miles9
Brookfield6.7 miles9

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 EldoradoAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q54888752The 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 355666. 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.