Farmdale, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Senoia census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30276. The Survey maps it on the Haralson quadrangle. The federal gazetteer marks this settlement historical: it is no longer a populated place, though the surveys that recorded it still are.

Farmdale within Coweta County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1971 USGS Haralson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

208 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 208 fires within 5 miles of Farmdale (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 740 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 22 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	129
Arson/incendiarism	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	7
Smoking	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
26 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-MERIWETHER-003
31 August 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019MERIWETHER001
29 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1995	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 1995	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Coweta 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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Haralson	2.7 miles	9
Elders Mill	2.8 miles	9
Blackjack	2.8 miles	9
Pope Hills Estate	3.1 miles	9
Peeks Crossing	5.1 miles	9
Senoia	5.9 miles	9
Turin	6.4 miles	9
Bexton	6.4 miles	9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 348484. 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.