Hemp, Georgia
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1888 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Morganton census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30560. It stands on Richards Branch. The Survey maps it on the Culberson quadrangle.
Topographic sheets covering this place
13 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched 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.
- 1888 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000
- 1892 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000
- 1898 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
- 1911 USGS Ellijay quadrangle1:125000, 4 printings
- 1935 USGS Culberson quadrangle1:24000
- 1941 USGS Culberson quadrangle1:24000, 4 printings
- 1942 USGS Culberson quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1955 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1961 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS Rome quadrangle1:250000
- 1981 USGS Dalton quadrangle1:100000
- 1988 USGS Culberson quadrangle1:24000
Photographs
1 photograph,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.
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress
Fires near this place
325 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 325 fires within 5 miles of Hemp between 1992 and 2020, burning about 976 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 66 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 | 201 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 66 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 26 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 2 September 2010 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-UNION-003 |
| 14 September 2010 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | FY2011-UNION-004 |
| 14 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 10 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 30 August 1998 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 23 August 2007 | Smoking | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
| 20 August 2008 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Georgia Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
1 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hemp in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1999 | Thunderstorm Wind | Hemp | $500 | Fannin county 911 reported several trees down. |
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 | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bryan Mill | 1.0 miles | 23 | |
| Sparks Mill | 1.6 miles | 23 | |
| Maple Grove | 1.9 miles | 23 | |
| Mashburn Mill | 2.0 miles | 23 | |
| Wright Mill | 2.1 miles | 23 | |
| Hurst | 3.1 miles | 25 | |
| Padena | 3.3 miles | 25 | |
| Craytonia | 3.3 miles | 25 |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356253. 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.












