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Harding, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Brookfield census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31794. The Survey maps it on the Waterloo quadrangle.

Harding within Tift County

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.

Fires near this place

416 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 416 fires within 5 miles of Harding between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,346 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 46 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 burning295
Arson/incendiarism46
Equipment and vehicle use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Misuse of fire by a minor14
Smoking11
Natural8
Recreation and ceremony8
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 1999Smoking1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
8 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
7 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 September 2019Debris and open burning5.7 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020IRWIN010
3 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
29 September 2019Debris and open burning1.5 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020TIFT011
29 September 2005Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tift County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Harding: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Unnamed Sand DepositSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceAlluvium

Storms near this place

8 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harding in 8 storm reports between 1999 and 2026: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHarding$3,000Trees were blown down on Mount Olive Church Road. One tree fell onto a parked and unoccupied school bus.
July 2002Thunderstorm WindHarding$1,000Several downed trees reported by the Tift County Sheriff.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindHarding-Trees were down in the Forrest Lake area.
March 2026Thunderstorm WindHarding-Trees were down on Harold Tyson Road.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindHarding-A tree was down near Jacob Hall Road and Chula Brookfield Road.
June 2021Thunderstorm WindHarding-A tree was blown down.
March 2020FloodHarding-Jacob Hall Road was flooded and closed.
May 1999HailHarding-Quarter size hail reported by Tift County EMA.

Every storm recorded in Tift 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
Brighton2.2 miles8
Hoganville (historical)3.8 miles8
Ferry Lake4.8 miles9
Chula6.5 miles8
Vanceville6.6 miles9
Tifton6.8 miles9
Unionville7.7 miles9
Phillipsburg7.7 miles9

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326321. 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.