Hillsdale, Georgia

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Ty Ty census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31793. It stands on Big Branch. The Survey maps it on the Tifton West quadrangle.

Hillsdale within Tift County

Topographic sheets covering this place

5 surveys from 9 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.

1953 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1958 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1973 USGS Tifton West quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
1979 USGS Moultrie quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
1988 USGS Waycross quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

427 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 427 fires within 5 miles of Hillsdale between 1992 and 2020, burning about 771 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 76 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	262
Arson/incendiarism	76
Equipment and vehicle use	21
Smoking	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Recreation and ceremony	13
Natural	6
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
9 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
8 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
6 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	2.4 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
24 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2016-TIFT-004
22 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2011-TIFT-014

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tift County

Storms near this place

5 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsdale in 5 storm reports between 2014 and 2026: 4 thunderstorm wind, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
February 2014	Tornado (EF0)	Hillsdale	$100,000	A fairly narrow corridor of damage points began west of Salem Church Rd about 0.8 mi south of Hwy 82 to the WSW of the city of Tifton. In these areas, mainly tree damage was noted with some large tree limbs snapped and a few trees uprooted. This damage path continued ENE into the vicinity of the Little River, before re-emerging just south of (and along) Hwy 82 near some residences and businesses. The first area affected was a neighborhood of manufactured homes centered around a pond along the south side of Highway 82. Tree damage was noted just south of this with some snapped trees and limbs. One home that was sitting on blocks slid off the blocks and was blown approximately 20 feet. Most of the other homes had only minor damage. A chain link fence was blown down to the north on the south side of the pond, while two billboards mounted on wooden poles were blown down to the west right along Highway 82 (north of the pond). The wooden support poles were snapped. This was indicative of a convergent damage pattern associated with a tornado. Just to the east, near the intersection of Hwy 82 and Marshall Drive, two sheds were flipped and blown back to the southwest - further indicating a convergent damage pattern. Other light debris along Highway 82 was blown in a similar direction. The tornado likely then shifted its motion to slightly south of east, and affected several more businesses north of Marshall Drive and south of Highway 82. Security camera footage from a business in this area showed some swirling rain curtains before very low visibility in strong winds prior to a loss of power. A metal building under construction near the intersection of Carpenter Rd and Marshall Dr was damaged and partially collapsed. Because construction was incomplete, it likely made it easier for the wind to cause the structure to fail. As the tornado crossed Carpenter Rd it likely began to dissipate as damage began to get more sporadic further east by Highway 319. There was some tree damage east of Carpenter Rd, and both the Lowe`s and Wal-Mart to the south of Highway 82 indicated they had some minor roof damage with some AC units moved or tipped over. Monetary damage was estimated.
August 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	$10,000	A tree was blown down onto a vehicle on Highway 82W.
March 2026	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	Trees were down along Hutchinson Rd near Zion Hope Rd.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	A tree was blown down in a yard near Whiddon Mill Road and Carpenter Road.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Hillsdale	-	A tree was blown down on Ray Taylor Road.

Every storm recorded in Tift 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
Pebblebrook	1.8 miles	9
Ty Ty	2.5 miles	8
Excelsior	4.4 miles	9
Phillipsburg	4.6 miles	9
Tifton	4.9 miles	9
Unionville	5.3 miles	9
Kelltown	6.0 miles	9
Chula	6.3 miles	8

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 331990. 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.