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Farrar, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Shady Dale census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30056. The Survey maps it on the Farrar quadrangle.

Farrar within Jasper County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 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

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Farrar between 1992 and 2020, burning about 586 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 12 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 burning98
Equipment and vehicle use13
Arson/incendiarism12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony6
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Smoking3

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 2008Equipment and vehicle use1.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2017Debris and open burning1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-MORGAN-002
23 September 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1997Recreation and ceremony3.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Jasper County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Farrar: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Newton ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Jasper County

Storms near this place

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Farrar in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 3 hail, 3 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
June 2011Thunderstorm WindFarrar$7,000The Jasper County 911 Center reported that many trees and power lines were down across the far northern portion of the county near the Morgan county line.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindFarrar$7,000The Jasper county Emergency Management Director reported that numerous trees and power lines were down at Farrar.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindFarrar$2,000The Jasper County 911 Center reported that at least a dozen trees were blown down across the county as thunderstorms moved across the county from north to south.
May 2008HailFarrar-The Jasper County 911 Center relayed reports of quarter-sized hail in the far northern part of the county near the Newton county line, west of Farrar. One tree was also blown down near the county line.
November 2002HailFarrar-The Jasper county Emergency Management Director reported golf ball size hail.
April 1998HailFarrar-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jasper 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
Kelly1.7 miles11
Broughton3.1 miles16
Morrow3.1 miles16
Maxwell3.5 miles11
Shady Dale4.9 miles11
Machen5.4 miles11
Athon (historical)6.3 miles11
Calvin6.8 miles11

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 FarrarAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q65069302The 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 331702. 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.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.