BlockBefore

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.

Hemp within Fannin County

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 23 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

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.

Georgia DOT Bridge No. 111-00060P-00020N, Georgia State Route 60 spur spanning Hempton Creek, Mineral Bluff, Fannin County, GA
Georgia DOT Bridge No. 111-00060P-00020N, Georgia State Route 60 spur spanning Hempton Creek, Mineral Bluff, Fannin County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

325 since 1992

Regional 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 burning201
Arson/incendiarism66
Missing data/not specified/undetermined26
Equipment and vehicle use9
Smoking8
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Natural2
Other causes1

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
29 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2010Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-UNION-003
14 September 2010Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2011-UNION-004
14 September 1998Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
10 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
30 August 1998Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
23 August 2007Smokingunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 August 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Fannin County

Storms near this place

1 since 1999

Regional 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 1999Thunderstorm WindHemp$500Fannin county 911 reported several trees down.

Every storm recorded in Fannin 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
Bryan Mill1.0 miles23
Sparks Mill1.6 miles23
Maple Grove1.9 miles23
Mashburn Mill2.0 miles23
Wright Mill2.1 miles23
Hurst3.1 miles25
Padena3.3 miles25
Craytonia3.3 miles25

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.