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Hillman, Georgia

13 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1906 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Sharon census division. It lies in ZIP code area 30631. It stands on Kendrick Creek. The Survey maps it on the Sharon quadrangle.

Hillman within Taliaferro County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 13 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

112 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 112 fires within 5 miles of Hillman between 1992 and 2020, burning about 552 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 burning62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined13
Railroad operations and maintenance9
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use8
Arson/incendiarism5
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1

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
9 September 2013Debris and open burning5.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2014-WILKES-001
30 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2001-TALIAFERRO-003
3 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
19 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2002-TALIAFERRO-001
10 September 2011Smoking5.2 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2012-WILKES-012
9 August 2002Debris and open burning2.8 acresGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2003-TALIAFERRO-001
5 August 2008Equipment and vehicle use3.9 acresGeorgia Forestry Commissionnot named
31 August 2017Debris and open burningunder an acreGeorgia Forestry CommissionFY2018-WILKES-002

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Taliaferro 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 Hillman: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Kyanite. 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
HillmanGoldPast ProducerStream Placer
Little River Mill C-E MineralsKyaniteProducer

Every working recorded in Taliaferro County

Storms near this place

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillman in 2 storm reports between 2018 and 2023: 1 flash flood, 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 2023Thunderstorm WindHillman$1,000Multiple trees were blown down along Silas Mercer Road.
November 2018Flash FloodHillman-Emergency Manager reported Silas Mercer Road was damaged due to flowing water from flash flooding. Radar estimates indicate that 3 to 4 inches, and possibly locally higher amounts, were observed in this area.

Every storm recorded in Taliaferro 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
Sharon2.8 miles13
Raytown3.2 miles13
Edgewood Crossroads4.3 miles14
Crawfordville6.1 miles14
Lyneville7.4 miles13
Springfield8.2 miles13
Carters Grove10.0 miles13
Robinson10.4 miles14

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331988. 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.