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Emma, Georgia

20 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1997. It stands in the Dawsonville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30534. It stands on Little Amicalola Creek. The Survey maps it on the Nimblewill quadrangle.

Emma within Dawson County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 20 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

188 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 188 fires within 5 miles of Emma between 1992 and 2019, burning about 323 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 47 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 burning108
Arson/incendiarism47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony8
Equipment and vehicle use6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural1

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 2009Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 1999Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2019Debris and open burning8.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020DAWSON001
19 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-PICKENS-002
19 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-DAWSON-006
16 September 1999Arson/incendiarism2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 2016Natural3.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-DAWSON-004

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Dawson County

Storms near this place

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Emma in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 2018Thunderstorm WindEmma$200,000Dawson County EMA reported numerous trees down, some on structures, along North Seed Tick Road east of Dawsonville. At least nine homes received damage from falling trees, three with major damage. One falling tree drove a fence post through a water main on N. Seed Tick Road. No injuries were reported.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindEmma$1,000A tree was downed onto power lines on Highway 136.
July 2002HailEmma-The Amicalola State Park reported dime size hail.

Every storm recorded in Dawson 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
Afton1.2 miles20
Johntown (historical)1.9 miles17
Juno2.7 miles19
Amicalola3.6 miles17
McKee5.5 miles19
Dawsonville8.2 miles18
Hubbardsville9.9 miles22
Dougherty12.1 miles18

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331663. 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.