Fincherville, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Worthville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30233. The Survey maps it on the Worthville quadrangle.

Fincherville within Butts 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Worthville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Milledgeville quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

184 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 184 fires within 5 miles of Fincherville between 1992 and 2020, burning about 650 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 30 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	100
Arson/incendiarism	30
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Smoking	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	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
8 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-BUTTS-001
19 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
15 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	11 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 1999	Arson/incendiarism	10 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1993	Smoking	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Butts County

Storms near this place

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Fincherville in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2010: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Fincherville	$550,000	The Butts County Emergency Management Director reported that an apparent thunderstorm downburst or microburst caused extensive damage to trees, power lines, and property in the northeastern part of the county from the Henry county line, just northwest of Fincherville to the south side of Lake Jackson along the Butts/Jasper county line. At least 40 trees were down along this path. Some of the most significant damage occurred near the intersection of Georgia Highway 36 and Barnetts Bridge Road, where a number of trees and power lines were down and one home in the area suffered major damage. A total of six homes sustained damage, two of which were severely damaged and four others sustained moderate damage.
February 2009	Hail	Fincherville	$240,000	The Butts County Emergency Management Director reported nickel to golf ball-sized hail across northern and northeastern Butts county. Nickel-sized hail was observed near Worthville and golf ball-sized hail further southeast toward the Jasper county line. Half-dollar-sized hail was observed near Lake Jackson.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Fincherville	$4,000	The Butts County Emergency Management Director reported that 20 trees were down in the vicinity of Haley Road near Worthville.
November 2009	Flood	Fincherville	$1,000	The Butts County Emergency Management Director reported that portions of Lucy Lane and Lunsford Road were covered with water much of the day and closed. The flooding was a result of high water from the South River at Snapping Shoals. The river crested at 12.9 feet with flood stage at 12.0 feet. Damage was confined to minor debris removal from the affected roads.

Every storm recorded in Butts 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
Worthville	2.2 miles	11
McMichael Crossroads	5.2 miles	12
Stark	5.8 miles	12
Jenkinsburg	7.3 miles	10
Jackson	7.9 miles	12
Pepperton	8.0 miles	12
Bibb (historical)	8.8 miles	12
Iron Springs Crossroads	8.9 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326279. 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.