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Heardmont, Georgia

14 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1893 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Coldwater census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30635. It lies near McCalla Island (historical). The Survey maps it on the Heardmont quadrangle.

Heardmont within Elbert County

On record in Heardmont

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

Surveyed buildings and structures 2 records

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 14 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.

Photographs

2 photographs,

Taken for the Office of War Information and the Farm Security Administration, who photographed the country between 1935 and 1944. Works of United States government photographers, with no known restriction on use. Each opens its catalogue record.

Blackwell Bridge, Heardmont Vicinity, County Road 244, Heardmont, Elbert County, GA
Blackwell Bridge, Heardmont Vicinity, County Road 244, Heardmont, Elbert County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Dye-White Farm, County Road 244, Heardmont, Elbert County, GA
Dye-White Farm, County Road 244, Heardmont, Elbert County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Heardmont between 1992 and 2020, burning about 266 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 1 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 burning21
Equipment and vehicle use11
Railroad operations and maintenance10
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Smoking4
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1

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 1997Debris and open burning6.2 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2005Debris and open burning2.4 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
15 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
14 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenance7.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2019Natural1.1 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
11 September 1993Equipment and vehicle use4.6 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 2017Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2002Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-ELBERT-010

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Elbert County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Heardmont: 1 unknown, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Cook ProspectGoldUnknown1908
Cook ProspectGoldProspect

Every working recorded in Elbert County

Storms near this place

1 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heardmont in 1 storm report in 2010: 1 hail. 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
June 2010HailHeardmont-Nickel to quarter size hail fell at Johnsonton Dr.

Every storm recorded in Elbert 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
Pearl1.3 miles14
Beverly2.0 miles14
Middleton3.9 miles15
Stansell (historical)4.0 miles14
Edinburg (historical)5.4 miles14
Ruckersville6.2 miles14
Cauthen7.8 miles15
Fortsonia7.9 miles15

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326326. 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.