Harrisons Mill, Georgia

7 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the Bluffton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 39824. The Survey maps it on the Zetto quadrangle.

Harrisons Mill within Clay County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 7 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 Dothan quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
1954 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Dothan quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS Zetto quadrangle1:24000
1981 USGS Albany quadrangle1:100000

Fires near this place

103 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 103 fires within 5 miles of Harrisons Mill between 1992 and 2020, burning about 541 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 5 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	66
Equipment and vehicle use	16
Natural	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	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
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
25 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-CLAY-003
24 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
11 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 August 1996	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 August 1995	Debris and open burning	1.1 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Clay County

Storms near this place

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Harrisons Mill in 1 storm report in 2021: 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
June 2021	Tornado (EF1)	Harrisons Mill	-	A tornado touched down west of Blakely, GA and traversed mainly rural terrain across Early, Clay, and Randolph Counties. The tornado was observed at multiple locations by trained spotters and the public throughout its path. The storm snapped or uprooted numerous pine trees northwest of Blakely. Tree damage continued into Clay County but didn't affect any major roadways. The tornado crossed GA-266 near Coleman in Randolph County. Minor structural damage was noted to a few residences and pump houses near US-82 and Reid Station Road west of Cuthbert. Numerous trees were snapped in this area, some blocking US-82. Some further tree damage was reported north of the highway before the tornado lifted.

Every storm recorded in Clay 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
Bluffton	2.0 miles	7
Bellville	3.3 miles	7
Oakland	3.4 miles	7
Jeff	4.1 miles	7
Zetto	4.1 miles	7
Suttons Corner	4.2 miles	7
Jones Crossing	7.9 miles	7
Pecan	8.5 miles	7

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.

Wikidata item Q122590025

The 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 356208. 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.