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Herndonville, Georgia

17 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Social Circle census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30655. The Survey maps it on the Social Circle quadrangle.

Herndonville within Walton County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 17 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.

Fires near this place

140 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 140 fires within 5 miles of Herndonville between 1992 and 2019, burning about 509 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 7 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 burning79
Equipment and vehicle use15
Railroad operations and maintenance13
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Arson/incendiarism7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Natural6
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking2

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
8 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2019Debris and open burning2.0 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WALTON002
30 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.1 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
24 September 2004Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 2003Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
18 September 2019Debris and open burning9.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2020WALTON003
11 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Walton County

Mines and quarries near this place

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Herndonville: 1 past producer. 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
Conner PlacerGoldPast ProducerStream Placer

Every working recorded in Walton County

Storms near this place

10 since 2011

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Herndonville in 10 storm reports between 2011 and 2024: 8 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2011HailHerndonville$400,000The Walton County 911 Center relayed a report of golf ball-sized hail from Herndonville and the public observed nickel-sized hail a little further east in Ebenezer.
August 2018Tornado (EF1)Herndonville$200,000A National Weather Service survey team found that an EF1 tornado with maximum wind speeds of 100 MPH and a maximum path width of 100 yards touched down northeast of Social Circle in the 1400 block of Social Circle Fairplay Road. The tornado snapped, uprooted or broke large limbs out of 20 to 30 large trees as it travelled east along the road for nearly a third of a mile. Six homes were damaged, two severely, mainly from falling trees and branches. No injuries were reported. [08/01/18: Tornado #1, County #1/1, EF-1, Walton, 2018:010].
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHerndonville$3,000Emergency manager reported trees and powerlines in roadway on Whitney Road.
August 2023Thunderstorm WindHerndonville$2,000Couple of trees down near social circle and Lipscomb Rd.
July 2022Thunderstorm WindHerndonville$2,000Tree down blocking lane at Arnold Dairy Farm Road and Jersey Circle Road.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindHerndonville$1,000Tree down near the intersection of Jersey Social Circle Rd and Arnold Dairy Farm Road.
April 2024Thunderstorm WindHerndonville$1,000Tree down near the intersection of Hwy 11 and Whitney Rd.
August 2020Thunderstorm WindHerndonville$1,000The Walton County 911 center reported a tree blown down on Clegg Farm Road near West Hightower Trail.
June 2023Thunderstorm WindHerndonville-Report of multiple trees down at Lipscomb Rd near Ivery Rd and Mt Paran Church Rd near Social Circle Fairplay Rd.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindHerndonville-Tree downed onto a car near Social Circle by Fairplay Rd and Howard Rd.

Every storm recorded in Walton 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
Whitney1.0 miles17
Social Circle3.9 miles17
Alcovy Mountain4.1 miles17
Cleaton (historical)4.1 miles17
Ebenezer4.1 miles16
Pannell4.2 miles17
Jersey5.3 miles17
Monroe5.8 miles17

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 Q122568437The 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 331957. 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.