Florence, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Omaha census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31821. It stands on Grass Creek. The Survey maps it on the Twin Springs quadrangle.

Florence within Stewart 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.

1955 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1957 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Phenix City quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Twin Springs quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Tuskegee quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Fires near this place

91 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of Florence between 1992 and 2019, burning about 557 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 7 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	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1

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
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	7.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1995	Debris and open burning	12 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	6.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-STEWART-005
17 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Alabama Forestry Commission	ECR-20130917-001
15 September 1996	Debris and open burning	6.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
14 September 2011	Debris and open burning	3.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-STEWART-009
11 September 1995	Debris and open burning	8.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Stewart County

Storms near this place

6 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Florence in 6 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Florence	$5,000	Several trees down at florence marina near the intersection of florence road and marina road.
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Florence	$5,000	The Stewart County Sheriff's Office reported that about a dozen trees were down across the county, including two at Florence Marina State Park, several near the county high school on Green Grove Road in Lumpkin, and at least one near Richland. A cable line was also down in Richland as a result of downed trees and/or wind.
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Florence	$1,500	The Stewart County 911 Center reported that several trees were blown down onto State Highway 39 in western Stewart County.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Florence	$1,000	Tree down along ga hwy 39 near florence marina.
March 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Florence	$1,000	A tree was reported downed on Hwy 39 at Florence Marina.
March 2022	Tornado (EF0)	Florence	-	A brief tornado touched down in rural Stewart County in a remote wooded area just southwest of Canyon Road where a TDS signature was observed on radar. Initial observed damage consisted of snapped tree branches and a couple of downed trees in the vicinity of Canyon Road. The tornado then impacted a hunting camp just north of Canyon Road. Metal roofing material was torn off of an overhang at this location and a couple of tree tops were twisted and tree branches were broken. The tornado then appeared to lift in a wooded area just northeast with inaccessible wooded areas beyond this point. [3/9/22: Tornado #1, County #1/1, EF-0, Stewart, 2022:003].

Every storm recorded in Stewart 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
Power Place	3.8 miles	12
Childs Place	4.0 miles	12
Perkins Place	4.0 miles	12
Omaha	4.1 miles	10
Roanoke (historical)	4.2 miles	9
Coffinton	5.7 miles	9
Spring Grove (historical)	5.8 miles	10
Heard Place	6.0 miles	12

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355851. 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.