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Ficklin, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Washington census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30673. It stands on Harden Creek. The Survey maps it on the Washington West quadrangle.

Ficklin within Wilkes County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Ficklin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 614 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 11 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 burning75
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Arson/incendiarism11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Recreation and ceremony1

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 2013Debris and open burning5.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-WILKES-001
5 September 2019Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WILKES004
30 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-TALIAFERRO-003
3 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2016Railroad operations and maintenance7.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2017-WILKES-003
22 September 1995Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2010Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WILKES-010
2 September 2010Debris and open burning15 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-WILKES-003

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Wilkes County

Mines and quarries near this place

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ficklin: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Kyanite. 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
Little River Mill C-E MineralsKyaniteProducer
HillmanGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Stone Ridge Mine (Orr)GoldPast ProducerVein
Stoney Ridge Gold MineGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wilkes County

Storms near this place

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ficklin in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2009: 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
March 2009FloodFicklin$1,000Flooding was observed in western Washington county along the Little River, which forms the border between Washington and Taliaferro counties. The river exceeded the flood stage of 19.0 feet at 1204 am EST on March 1st and remained above flood stage until 912 pm EST on March 2nd. The river crested at 22.5 feet on March 1st at 845 am EST. Damage was confined to minor debris removal.
May 2003HailFicklin-The Wilkes county Emergency Management Director reported golf ball-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Wilkes 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
Little River1.6 miles13
Lundberg3.0 miles13
Tyrone5.1 miles13
Porters6.4 miles13
Lincoln Heights6.6 miles13
Daniel6.9 miles13
Logan7.2 miles13
Anne Heights7.2 miles13

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331705. 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.