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Harrington, Georgia

15 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1945 and the latest in 1993. It stands in the St. Simons census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31522. It lies near Saint Simons Island. The Survey maps it on the Sea Island quadrangle.

Harrington within Glynn County

Topographic sheets covering this place

10 surveys from 15 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

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Harrington between 1994 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. 7 started naturally. None was 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 burning8
Natural7
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
20 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 August 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-GLYNN-002
3 July 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
17 July 2002Natural40 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-GLYNN-001
15 July 2000Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-GLYNN-008
14 July 2000Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-GLYNN-007
28 June 1998Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
25 June 1998Natural48 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Glynn 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 Harrington: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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
German Village Sand PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Glynn County

Storms near this place

9 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrington in 9 storm reports between 2008 and 2025: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 2 heavy rain, 1 lightning. 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 2023LightningHarrington$500Lightning struck a power line which caused a brush fire at 270 Village Drive. The time of the event was based on lightning data. The cost of damage was estimated for inclusion in the Storm Data database.
August 2025Heavy RainHarrington-Personal weather station WestPoint KGASAINT62 measured 2.81 inches of rain in the past hour. Heavy rain began around 255 PM.
August 2025Heavy RainHarrington-A personal weather station measured 2.58 inches in the past hour.
April 2019Funnel CloudHarrington-A funnel cloud was photographed just southwest of Country Club Estates and Interstate 95.
June 2012Thunderstorm WindHarrington-A tree was blown down on Village Drive.
February 2012Funnel CloudHarrington-A funnel cloud was reported between Brunswick and St. Simons Island.
May 2008Thunderstorm WindHarrington-The Park Service reported multiple trees blown down across the area, including one at the Fort Frederica National Monument.
September 2008Thunderstorm WindHarrington-Camden County Central Dispatch relayed a report of a tree down on Lawrence Road. Hail was also reported, but the size was unknown.
September 2008Thunderstorm WindHarrington-Several trees were blown down across Lawrence Road. The time of the event was based on radar imagery.

Every storm recorded in Glynn 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
Saint Clair Estates0.9 miles17
German Village1.2 miles15
Glynn Haven1.3 miles17
Blackbanks1.4 miles17
Village Bluff1.5 miles15
Ebo Landing1.6 miles17
Silver Lake1.8 miles17
Sea Island1.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331917. 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.