High Falls, Georgia

11 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1951 and the latest in 1979. It stands in the Forsyth census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30233. The Survey maps it on the High Falls quadrangle.

High Falls within Monroe County

Topographic sheets covering this place

6 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.

1951 USGS Barnesville quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1953 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1957 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Atlanta quadrangle1:250000
1973 USGS High Falls quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Griffin quadrangle1:100000, 3 printings

Fires near this place

313 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 313 fires within 5 miles of High Falls between 1992 and 2020, burning about 814 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 35 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Smoking	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Natural	9
Recreation and ceremony	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-BUTTS-002
23 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
20 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-MONROE-013
18 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
17 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
16 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
13 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Monroe County

Storms near this place

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names High Falls in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 lightning. 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
April 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	High Falls	$200,000	The Monroe County Emergency Management Director reported that dozens of trees and several power lines were down throughout the county. Considerable damage was noted in High Falls State Park in the northwest corner of the county and within the city of Forsyth. A motorist was trapped in their vehicle in Forsyth at Georgia Highway 42 and Sharp Street when a large tree fell on the vehicle. The roof was blown off a home three miles south of High Falls State Park. Three other homes in the county suffered minor damage.
August 2007	Lightning	High Falls	$150,000	The Monroe County Emergency Management Director reported that lightning struck a home in the High Falls area. The home was completely destroyed from the resulting fire.
January 2006	Hail	High Falls	$100,000	The Monroe County Emergency Management Director reported golf-ball sized hail across much of the northern part of the county.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	High Falls	$10,000	Numerous trees down in Monroe county around High Falls Park.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	High Falls	$5,000	The Monroe County Sheriffs Office reported numerous trees down in northern Monroe County, including at least one on a house.
March 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	High Falls	$5,000	The Monroe County Emergency Manager reported that trees were blown down countywide. At least one car accident occurred as a result of the weather.
April 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	High Falls	$4,000	no account filed
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	High Falls	$2,000	The Monroe County 911 center reported several trees blown down on Boxankle Road.
March 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	High Falls	$1,000	Two trees down along riverview road.
January 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	High Falls	-	Report of trees down and structural damage near the intersection of Buck Creek Dr and Buck Creek Rd.
March 2022	Hail	High Falls	-	Half dollar sized hail reported near the intersection of Lakeshore Dr and Sterling Water Dr in the Lake Jackson area.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	High Falls	-	Report of a tree on powerline along Pioneer Trail.
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	High Falls	-	Report of a tree down on a house along Lakeshore Dr.
June 2016	Hail	High Falls	-	The public reported quarter sized hail along High Falls Road around Towaliga River Drive.
April 2009	Hail	High Falls	-	The public observed nickel to quarter-sized hail from the northwest corner of the county near High Falls and Blount to just northeast of Forsyth.

Every storm recorded in Monroe 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
Socrates (historical)	2.8 miles	11
Higgins Mill	3.4 miles	11
Blount	3.5 miles	14
Box Ankle	4.9 miles	14
Logwall	6.2 miles	14
Cabaniss	7.9 miles	14
Collier	8.9 miles	10
Brighton Heights	9.3 miles	14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356280. 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.