Friendship, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1955 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Plains census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31719. The Survey maps it on the Draneville quadrangle.

Friendship within Sumter County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 Draneville quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Americus quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Friendship between 1992 and 2018, burning about 332 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 8 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	78
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Natural	8
Arson/incendiarism	8
Smoking	4

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
24 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-WEBSTER-005
18 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MARION-009
16 September 1999	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1992	Debris and open burning	16 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Sumter County

Storms near this place

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Friendship in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2017: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2005	Hail	Friendship	$50,000	The Sumter County 911 Center reported a large swath of hail across the north part of the county. Hail ranging in size from golf balls to softballs fell approximately five miles north of Americus along U.S. Highway 19. Quarter-sized hail was also reported in the extreme south part of the county from a separate thunderstorm cell.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$20,000	The Sumter County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down from around the intersection of Highways 153 and 30 to Mallon Road. A house was hit by a falling tree on Mallon road. No injuries were reported.
December 2009	Flood	Friendship	$3,000	The Sumter County Emergency Management Director reported minor flooding of some roads and property across the county, mostly adjacent to overflowing creeks and streams. Monetary damage was confined to minor debris removal in these areas.
May 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Friendship	$2,000	The Sumter County 911 Center reported that several trees were down across the county. Radar supports that two rounds of thunderstorms resulted in downed trees, one in the far northern part of the county between 630 and 645 am EDT in the Andersonville area, while another round of thunderstorms entered the northwest part of the county near Friendship and tracked southeast into the southeast part of the county near Cobb. The majority of the wind damage likely occurred with this later round of thunderstorms.
April 2006	Hail	Friendship	-	The public reported nickel-sized hail.

Every storm recorded in Sumter 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
Concord	2.2 miles	7
Magnolia Springs (historical)	5.6 miles	8
Shiloh	5.9 miles	7
Myrtle Springs (historical)	6.2 miles	7
Plains	8.2 miles	8
Lebanon (historical)	8.5 miles	8
New Point	9.1 miles	8
Northside Homes	10.8 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326294. 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.