Harlow, Georgia

8 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1957 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Dublin census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31021. The Survey maps it on the Rentz quadrangle.

Harlow within Laurens County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Rentz quadrangle1:24000
1979 USGS Vidalia quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

875 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 875 fires within 5 miles of Harlow between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,324 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 103 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	435
Equipment and vehicle use	122
Arson/incendiarism	103
Railroad operations and maintenance	50
Smoking	43
Misuse of fire by a minor	42
Recreation and ceremony	38
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26
Natural	16

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
9 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2017-LAURENS-031
9 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-LAURENS-036
9 September 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-LAURENS-037
9 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2014-LAURENS-003
7 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 2020	Debris and open burning	21 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2021LAURENS023

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Laurens County

Storms near this place

5 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harlow in 5 storm reports between 2011 and 2026: 2 hail, 2 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 2015	Hail	Harlow	$439,000	The broadcast media relayed photos of baseball size hail that fell on the Academy Avenue Extension in Dublin.
May 2011	Hail	Harlow	$116,000	The Laurens County 911 Center observed golf ball-sized hail. WSR-88D radar data suggests that quarter to golf ball-sized hail likely fell from just southwest of Dublin near Harlow to just northeast of East Dublin.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Harlow	$10,000	The Laurens County 911 Center reported multiple trees and power lines blown down from around exit 51 on I-16 to Kellam and Pecan Roads, Woodrow Avenue and Greenway Drive in Dublin.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Harlow	$1,500	The Laurens County Emergency Manager reported several trees down across the Dublin area, including some along the intersection of Highway 257 and Dublin-Eastman Road.
March 2026	Tornado (EF0)	Harlow	-	The first discernible damage from the tornado was observed on Pinehill Rd, to the east of the intersection with US Hwy 441 and immediately northwest of the intersection with Hartley Rd. Here, a metal road sign was bent and two pine trees were uprooted.\|Large branches were also broken to the northeast along a treeline across a small field. As the tornado continued east, several pine trees were observed to be uprooted with two more snapped on both sides of Pinehill Rd. The tornado pushed over power poles and uprooted additional pine trees near the intersection of Pinehill Rd and Hart Ln. Continuing further east, the tornado crossed Campground Rd, where it uprooted another tree. Further damage from the tornado was observed near the intersection of GA Hwy 19 and Bw Cook Rd, where a tree was uprooted and large branches\|were broken on another tree. The tornado lifted between Bw Cook Rd and I-16 without causing any additional damage.

Every storm recorded in Laurens 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
Moores	1.8 miles	8
Vincent	1.9 miles	8
Shewmake	3.4 miles	8
Garretta	3.5 miles	8
Alligood	4.3 miles	8
Springhaven (historical)	4.3 miles	8
Whipples Crossing	5.0 miles	8
Dublin	5.0 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331915. 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.