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Friendship, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1912 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Linton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31087. It stands on Long Branch. The Survey maps it on the Friendship quadrangle.

Friendship within Hancock County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 14 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

230 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 230 fires within 5 miles of Friendship between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,112 acres in total. 23 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 burning121
Arson/incendiarism30
Natural23
Equipment and vehicle use23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Smoking13
Recreation and ceremony6

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 1993Debris and open burning2.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Debris and open burning1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 1999Recreation and ceremony9.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Recreation and ceremony3.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 2011Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WASHINGTON-018
17 September 1999Arson/incendiarism100 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 September 1997Equipment and vehicle use20 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Friendship: 9 prospects, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Kaolin, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
No. 5 Hale MineClayProducer
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium
Alec Stephens ProspectKaolinProspect
C B Mills ProspectKaolinProspect
C I Giles ProspectKaolinProspect
Danzy MineKaolinProducer
E G Hutchings ProspectKaolinProspect
George Danzy ProspectKaolinProspect
Hood MineKaolinProducer
J L Jordon ProspectKaolinProspect

Every working recorded in Hancock County

Storms near this place

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Friendship in 1 storm report in 2017: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2017Tornado (EF1)Friendship$5,000A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF1 tornado with maximum winds of 95 MPH and a maximum path width of 70 yards began in Hancock County just northeast of Deepstep Road, which is the Hancock/Baldwin County line. The tornado moved northeast parallel to Deepstep Road for less than a quarter of a mile before it turned east and crossed the road into Baldwin County. Several trees were blown down along this portion of the path. The total path length in both counties was around a half mile. [01/21/17: Tornado #18, County #1/2, EF1, Hancock-Baldwin, 2017:019].

Every storm recorded in Hancock 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
Linton3.2 miles11
Beulah4.4 miles13
Harpertown (historical)6.1 miles13
Zebulon7.2 miles13
Devereux10.0 miles13
Sandy Run11.5 miles14
Glenford (historical)12.2 miles10
Buckhead (historical)12.2 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331773. 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.