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Elmview, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Buena Vista census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31803. The Survey maps it on the Buena Vista quadrangle.

Elmview within Marion County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 11 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

274 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 274 fires within 5 miles of Elmview between 1992 and 2020, burning about 672 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 45 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 burning116
Arson/incendiarism45
Equipment and vehicle use29
Smoking24
Natural21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined20
Misuse of fire by a minor10
Railroad operations and maintenance7
Recreation and ceremony2

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
30 September 2006Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-MARION-008
24 September 2008Smoking3.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 September 2017Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-MARION-003
22 September 1993Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2005Arson/incendiarism1.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2015-MARION-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Storms near this place

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Elmview in 4 storm reports between 2012 and 2024: 4 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 2012Thunderstorm WindElmview$3,000The Middle Flint Regional 911 Center reported that several trees and power lines were blown down along Highway 26 just went of Buena Vista. Another tree was down across Pineville Road.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindElmview$2,000Tree down on a powerline at the intersection of murray farm road and flem smith road.
January 2024Thunderstorm WindElmview$1,000Tree downed along HWY 26 near the intersection of Firetower road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindElmview-Emergency manager reported a tree fell onto a power line on Murray Farm Rd and caused a fire in a wooded area.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Berginville2.3 miles11
Buena Vista2.5 miles11
Zellobee3.2 miles11
Brantley4.1 miles11
Union4.3 miles13
Glen Alta4.7 miles13
Pineville4.9 miles11
Doyle6.6 miles8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331657. 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.