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Halls, Georgia

18 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1890 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Kingston census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30145. It stands on Sipsey Creek. The Survey maps it on the Adairsville quadrangle.

Halls within Bartow County

Topographic sheets covering this place

11 surveys from 18 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

459 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 459 fires within 5 miles of Halls between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,106 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 241 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
Arson/incendiarism241
Debris and open burning151
Missing data/not specified/undetermined22
Equipment and vehicle use20
Recreation and ceremony10
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Smoking1

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 1998Debris and open burning4.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 2005Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BARTOW-000
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-BARTOW-010
5 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-BARTOW-028
4 September 2011Debris and open burning12 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-BARTOW-025
4 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bartow County

Mines and quarries near this place

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Halls: 24 prospects, 20 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Manganese, Manganese. 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
Barnsley Garden ProspectManganese, AluminumProspect
W I Henderson ProspectIronPast Producer
Greenfield PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect1918
Kerr PropertyIron, ManganeseProspect1919
Saylor PropertyManganesePast Producer1917
Sherman PropertyManganesePast Producer1895
Adairsville QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Highway QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Howard Hydraulic Cement Co QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Akin MineAluminumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Bartow County

Storms near this place

13 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halls in 13 storm reports between 2002 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2002Tornado (F2)Halls$1,500,000A National Weather Service disaster survey team and the Bartow county Emergency Management Director confirmed a 12 mile long west-east path of damage beginning on Barnsley Garden Road near Barnsley Gardens in northwest Bartow county continuing east to just south of Halls Station crossing U.S. Highway 41, then east across Pleasant Valley Road, to just east of Interstate 75 on Crowe Spring Road. The path of damage, up to 500 yards wide in some area, consisted mostly of damage caused by straight line winds with speeds of 80 to 100 mph, but there was definite evidence of tornadic damage of F2 intensity in an isolated area on Clear Creek Road. This portion of the tornado had a path length of 500 yards with a path width of 100 yards. Tornadic damage of F1 intensity was evident along a secondary segment of the damage path at the intersection of Cedar Creek Road and Hazel Road about 3 miles north of Cassville. This portion of the torando had a path length of 500 yards with a path width of 100 yards. Twelve to 15 residental homes suffered major structural damage, seven chicken houses were destroyed, including 7500 chickens, and a barn was completely destroyed. There were also numerous downed trees and power lines along and near the the damage path. Bartow county was one of five counties declared in a state of emergency by the governor.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHalls$30,000Wind damage swath with numerous trees down stretching from US 41 just south of Adairsville towards US 411 southeast of Rydal.
April 2020Thunderstorm WindHalls$15,000Multiple reports of trees down in Adairsville and Kingston.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindHalls$1,000Tree down near the intersection of Adairsville Pleasant Valley Rd and Rocky Rd NW.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindHalls$1,000A tree was downed onto power lines on 2 Run Crossing NW.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindHalls$1,000The Bartow County 911 Center reported that three to four trees were down in the north central part of the county, generally south to southeast of Adairsville.
February 2009Thunderstorm WindHalls$500The Bartow County Emergency Management Director reported that two large trees were uprooted near Pleasant Valley and Clear Creek Roads.
March 2023Thunderstorm WindHalls-Minor structural damage reported near intersection of Parkerwood Rd NW and Joe Frank Harris Pkwy.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHalls-Trees down on powerlines along Hall Station Road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHalls-Trees down over powerlines along Connesena Road NW.
March 2021Flash FloodHalls-The Emergency Manager reported a flooded roadway near the intersection of Connesena Road NW and Hickory Forest Lane NW. Radar estimates indicate that rainfall of 4 to 6 inches occurred in the area, resulting in the flash flooding.
December 2021Thunderstorm WindHalls-Local EM reported several trees down along Conneseera Road and Hall Station Road.
February 2020Flash FloodHalls-The Emergency Manager reported flooding at the intersection of Griffin Road and 2 Run Crossing NW due to high flow through Big Branch. Radar estimates indicate that 2.5 to 4 inches of rain have occurred, falling on already wet soils, resulting in flash flooding.

Every storm recorded in Bartow 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
Summit (historical)0.7 miles18
Snow Springs3.5 miles18
Kingston4.2 miles18
Adairsville4.9 miles18
Pleasant Valley5.0 miles19
Woollys (historical)5.0 miles18
Chunn Estates5.2 miles19
Murchisons (historical)5.5 miles18

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.

Wikipedia article on HallsAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q19880150The 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 325832. 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.