Granite Hill, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sparta census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31087. The Survey maps it on the Sparta quadrangle.

Granite Hill within Hancock County

On record in Granite Hill

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 within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

Rockbylisted 1978 · 0.8 miles away

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 10 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 Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Sparta quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1981 USGS Thomson quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Photographs

6 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Granite Hill Plantation, Silo, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 2, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast east of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Granite Hill Plantation, Provision House, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 1, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast east of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 3, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast east of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Granite Hill Plantation, Quarry No. 4, South side of State Route 16, 1.3 miles northeast east of Sparta, Sparta, Hancock County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

182 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 182 fires within 5 miles of Granite Hill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 673 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 12 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	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Arson/incendiarism	12
Natural	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Smoking	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
7 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 2018	Debris and open burning	13 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2019HANCOCK002
24 September 2010	Debris and open burning	5.6 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-HANCOCK-005
22 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.9 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
18 September 1999	Smoking	7.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
12 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Hancock County

Storms near this place

5 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Granite Hill in 5 storm reports between 2009 and 2020: 4 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
April 2009	Tornado (EF0)	Granite Hill	$7,000	A damage survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that yet a second tornado touched down in Hancock county. This was also a brief EF0 tornado and touched down just north-northeast of downtown Sparta. The path width of this tornado was determined to also be 100 feet with maximum winds estimated to also be 80 mph. Numerous large trees were down along the path of the tornado in a primarily rural area. No structural damage was noted in association with this tornado.
March 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Granite Hill	$6,000	The Hancock County 911 center reported trees and a power line blown down on Springfield Road near Highway 15.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Granite Hill	$5,000	Dispatch reported at least 2 trees down on Hwy 15 between Clay Street and Burnett Street.
June 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Granite Hill	$3,000	The Hancock County Emergency Manager reported trees blown down on Highway 16 at Old Augusta Road and on Highway 15 at Cody Johnson Road.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Granite Hill	$2,000	The Hancock County 911 center reported power lines blown down along the Sandersville Highway.

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.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Sunshine (historical)	0.9 miles	10
Culverton	2.4 miles	10
Sparta	2.5 miles	10
Glenford (historical)	5.7 miles	10
Mount Zion	6.1 miles	10
Eureka (historical)	8.1 miles	10
Zebulon	8.3 miles	13
Shoulderbone	8.3 miles	10

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 Q31583850

The 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 331847. 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.