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Frolona, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1899 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the Texas census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30217. The Survey maps it on the Frolona quadrangle.

Frolona within Heard 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.

Fires near this place

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Frolona between 1992 and 2019, burning about 1,634 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 36 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 burning87
Arson/incendiarism36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Equipment and vehicle use5
Natural2

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 1995Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burning2.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
3 September 2011Smoking1.9 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-HEARD-009
28 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
26 September 1993Debris and open burning3.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
21 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreAlabama Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1997Smoking2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Heard County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Frolona: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfides. 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
Joshua Ballard ProspectGold, SulfidesOccurrenceGold, Pyrite
Joshua Ballard ProspectGoldPast ProducerVein

Every working recorded in Heard County

Storms near this place

4 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Frolona in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 3 thunderstorm wind, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2013Thunderstorm WindFrolona$2,500The Heard County Emergency Manager reported that a couple of trees were blown down in the Frolona area, and several trees were blown down from near the Simpson area to east of Highway 27 near the Heard/Carroll County line.
March 2025Thunderstorm WindFrolona$1,000Report of a tree down near the intersection of forlona rd and mountain laurel rd.
November 2002Thunderstorm WindFrolona$250The Heard county Emergency Management Director reported that two trees were blown down in the extreme western part of the county near the Alabama border. One tree was blown down on Old Tennessee Road and the other on Glenn Road.
June 2010HailFrolona-The Heard County 911 Center reported penny-sized hail across the northwest part of the county, near Ephesus and Roosterville.

Every storm recorded in Heard 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
Crain (historical)1.3 miles10
Ridgeway1.5 miles11
Red Oak2.2 miles10
Ridley2.5 miles11
Mahailey Crossroads2.6 miles11
Yates Crossroads3.0 miles11
Simpson3.7 miles11
Hyatt3.8 miles11

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122571693The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331776. 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.