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.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 8 printed sheetsMatched 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
- 1973 USGS Lenox quadrangle1:24000
- 1979 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
- 1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000
Photographs
1 photograph, 1977Taken 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.
Adler, Thomas A, 1977. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
399 since 1992Regional 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 burning | 260 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 47 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 33 |
| Smoking | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 9 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 9 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | 3.7 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | 1.5 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2003-COOK-020 |
| 4 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 44 acres | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 4 September 1999 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 September 1997 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 29 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 28 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2016-TIFT-005 |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2012Regional 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eldorado | $1,000 | The 911 call center reported that a tree was blown down near the county line. Monetary damage was estimated. |
| January 2023 | Thunderstorm Wind | Eldorado | - | A 5 to 7 mile path of sporadic tree damage was determined to be straight line winds. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linder | 2.4 miles | 9 | |
| Iniss (historical) | 3.5 miles | 9 | |
| Kelltown | 3.9 miles | 9 | |
| Unionville | 5.7 miles | 9 | |
| Omega | 5.8 miles | 8 | |
| Vanceville | 6.0 miles | 9 | |
| Phillipsburg | 6.2 miles | 9 | |
| Brookfield | 6.7 miles | 9 |
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 Eldorado | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q54888752 | 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 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.




