Greshamville, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Greshamville census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30650. The Survey maps it on the Greshamville quadrangle.

Greshamville within Greene 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.

1953 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1958 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1959 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1963 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000
1972 USGS Greshamville quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1980 USGS Athens quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Athens quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Greshamville between 1992 and 2017, burning about 362 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 17 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	37
Arson/incendiarism	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Smoking	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	PARK AND TROT
11 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
2 August 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-GREENE-003
12 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2013-GREENE-003
5 July 2000	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2001-MORGAN-001

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Greene County

Storms near this place

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Greshamville in 10 storm reports between 1997 and 2018: 3 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 hail, 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 2011	Tornado (EF1)	Greshamville	$750,000	A storm survey conducted by the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Peachtree City, Georgia confirmed that then EF1 tornado that first touched down in far southeast Newton county and continued across central Morgan county, moved into western Greene county before finally lifting approximately six miles west of Greensboro. While the total tornado path length was 25 miles, approximately 3.5 miles of this was within Greene county. The path width was determined to be 1/2 mile with maximum winds estimated to be 105 mph. Damage within Greene county was mostly confined to hundreds of trees, with minor structural damage, especially around Greshamville. One home was destroyed and one suffered major damage. Six other homes sustained minor damage.\|\|[04/27-04/28/11: Tornado #13, County #3-3, EF1, Newton-Morgan-Greene, 2011:022].
May 2018	Flash Flood	Greshamville	$20,000	Emergency Manager reported that five roads were washed out in the Greshamville area, northward toward Farmington.
April 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Greshamville	$5,000	The Greene County Emergency Manager reported a few trees blown down across the northwestern portion of the county, including along Reid Duvall Road near Highway 278, near the intersection of Swords Road and Staci Drive, and along C M Copeland Road.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Greshamville	$1,000	The public reported that some trees were blown down on the west side of Lake Oconee.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Greshamville	$750	The Greene County 911 Center reported that three trees were blown down in Greshomville.
April 2018	Flash Flood	Greshamville	-	Greene County Emergency Managers reported water over C M Copeland Road and Reid Duvall Road near Greshamville.
April 2018	Flash Flood	Greshamville	-	Greene County Emergency Manager reported water covering Quail Trail Road near Arrowhead Road, along the east bank of upper portion of Lake Oconee.
June 2017	Heavy Rain	Greshamville	-	The USFS RAWS Station located 2 NE Greshamville reported 4.10 inches of rain for the 24-hour period ending at 9:30 PM EST.
May 2003	Hail	Greshamville	-	The public reported penny-sized hail on the west side of Lake Oconee.
April 1997	Hail	Greshamville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Greene 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
Wrayswood	4.6 miles	11
Carey	6.2 miles	11
Scull Shoals (historical)	7.2 miles	11
Thurston	7.8 miles	11
Penfield	8.3 miles	11
Greensboro	8.3 miles	11
Bairdstown	11.9 miles	11
Woodville	12.0 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 328010. 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.