Georgetown, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Georgetown North census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39854. It stands on Tobannee Creek. The Survey maps it on the Georgetown quadrangle.

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Georgetown within Quitman County

On record in Georgetown

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register 2 records

Quitman County Courthouse and Old Jaillisted 1995
Quitman County Jaillisted 1981

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 8 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Georgetown quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Troy quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Georgetown between 1992 and 2020, burning about 683 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 14 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	104
Equipment and vehicle use	17
Arson/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Smoking	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Natural	2

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 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-QUITMAN-002
13 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
1 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-QUITMAN-001
28 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Quitman County

Mines and quarries near this place

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Georgetown: 4 producers, 3 past producers, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Kaolin, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Eufaula Pit	Aluminum, Kaolin	Past Producer
Barbour Operation Wilson-Snead Mill	Kaolin	Producer
Eufaula Mine	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lumpkin Mill	Iron	Past Producer
Lumpkin Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Unnamed	Iron	Unknown
Unnamed Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz
Unnamed Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer	Quartz

Every working recorded in Quitman County

Storms near this place

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Georgetown in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2023: 18 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 lightning, 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
July 2008	Lightning	Georgetown	$100,000	A Georgetown restaurant was destroyed by fire. The cause of the blaze was lightning.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$5,000	A large tree was blown down on Highway 82 along with several hundred power outages in the Georgetown area.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$5,000	Several trees and limbs were downed knocking down power lines.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$3,000	Power lines were blown down onto a truck. Trees were down on Highway 39 and 82.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$3,000	Trees and power lines were blown down.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$2,000	A tree was blown down onto power lines along Highway 82.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$2,000	Several downed trees reported by the Quitman County Sheriff.
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$2,000	Some trees and power lines down at U.S. Highway 82 and Hatcher Road. Reported by the Quitman County EMA.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$500	Thunderstorm winds uprooted several trees onto power lines which along U.S. Highway 82 which caused one to two power outages in Georgetown.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	$250	A few trees were down southeast of Quitman.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Two trees were blown down on Winding Way Road.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Downed power lines were reported in an area of Florence St and Depot St .
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Scattered trees were blown down.
February 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	There were 2 reports of trees down in Quitman county.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Trees were blown down in Quitman county.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Several trees were reported down by the Quitman County Sheriff's Office.
March 2011	Tornado (EF0)	Georgetown	-	The Eufaula police department reported a tornado on the ground near Georgetown. However, no damage was reported.
December 2009	Flood	Georgetown	-	Water up to a foot deep covered several streets and roadways in Georgetown, including portions of U.S. Highway 82. Several retention ponds were overflowing.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Numerous trees were down.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	A few trees were down northeast of Georgetown.
February 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Georgetown	-	Several trees were down across the northern half of the county.
June 2007	Hail	Georgetown	-	Half dollar size hail was reported.
April 2005	Hail	Georgetown	-	Nickel size hail reported by the Quitman County Sheriff.
December 2005	Hail	Georgetown	-	The Quitman County Sheriff reported quarter size hail.
June 2002	Hail	Georgetown	-	Nickel size hail fell on U.S. Highway 82. Reported by the Quitman County Sheriff.
March 2011	Hail	Georgetown	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Quitman 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
Hatcher	6.9 miles	7
Crossroads	7.1 miles	7
Union	9.0 miles	7
Morris	10.6 miles	7

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 355995. 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.