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High Shoals, Georgia

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1896 and the latest in 1988. It lies in ZIP code area 30621. The Survey maps it on the High Shoals quadrangle.

High Shoals within Morgan County

On record in High Shoals

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 1 record

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 16 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.

Casulon Plantation, Georgia Highway 186, along Jones Woods Road, High Shoals, Morgan County, GA
Casulon Plantation, Georgia Highway 186, along Jones Woods Road, High Shoals, Morgan County, GA
Photographer not recorded. Library of Congress

Fires near this place

146 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of High Shoals between 1992 and 2018, burning about 279 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 5 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 burning83
Equipment and vehicle use21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined12
Natural9
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony5
Arson/incendiarism5
Misuse of fire by a minor5

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 1999Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 2008Equipment and vehicle use2.7 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
20 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
2 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 1999Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1998Naturalunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
5 August 1998Smoking1.3 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Morgan 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 High Shoals: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica. 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
Branch ProspectMicaProspect
Thomas ProspectMicaProspect

Every working recorded in Morgan County

Storms near this place

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names High Shoals in 1 storm report in 2007: 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
July 2007Thunderstorm WindHigh Shoals$1,000The Morgan County Emergency Management Director reported that four trees were down in the far northern part of the county in the High Shoals area. Some of the downed trees were blocking roads.

Every storm recorded in Morgan 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
Rehoboth (historical)3.6 miles12
Braswell4.9 miles16
Bostwick5.8 miles16
Nolans Store7.6 miles11
Malcolms Store8.6 miles16
Fairplay10.0 miles16
Sandy Creek10.1 miles16
Apalachee10.1 miles11

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 356285. 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.