Hartley, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Fort Valley census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31030. The Survey maps it on the Fort Valley West quadrangle.

Hartley within Peach County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 11 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.

1956 USGS Fort Valley quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Fort Valley West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1978 USGS Macon quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

402 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 402 fires within 5 miles of Hartley between 1992 and 2020, burning about 869 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 49 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	228
Arson/incendiarism	49
Equipment and vehicle use	42
Misuse of fire by a minor	27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Natural	13
Recreation and ceremony	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Smoking	7

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 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
9 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
7 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
28 September 1993	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Peach County

Storms near this place

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartley in 1 storm report in 2009: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2009	Flood	Hartley	$25,000	The Peach County Emergency Management Director reported that eight roads were closed from flooding across the county. Some of the roads closed included Rolling Hills Road, Woolfolk Road, Lilly Road, and the Georgia Highway 49 bypass. Some of the roads could be closed for days to weeks as repairs are made. This flooding was a result of repeated heavy rainfall for several hours during the late evening of the 17th and the early morning hours of the 18th. The flooding in Peach county did not reach flash flood criteria, thus damage to roads was minimal.

Every storm recorded in Peach 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
Grogan	0.7 miles	11
Valley Pines	1.8 miles	11
Fort Valley	2.3 miles	11
Indian Oaks	2.6 miles	11
Peach Valley	2.8 miles	11
Taylors Mill	2.8 miles	10
State College	3.1 miles	11
Willow Lake	3.5 miles	11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331921. 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.